Re: [Gzz] xupdf

[Benja Fallenstein]

Tuomas Lukka wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:02:35PM +0100, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
>  
>
> > (currently, even the focused text is 
> > only barely readable-- it should look at least as good as in gv).
> >    
>
> Screenshot of what is really bad in your opinion?

How do I make one? Is there a key binding for it? (Or an external 
program that can read what GL draws...)

> > - buoy placing (ESP: not outside the window!)
> >    
>
> I think that's actually working pretty well, with the new algorithm
> (project to circle). It's very predictable.
Sometimes it works really well, yes, but at other times IMHO it does 
not. Here are the things I observed:
- Sometimes (if it's shown 'below' or 'above') the buoy is placed 
outside the window. That doesn't make sense!
- If an anchor is to the left, and the buoy is shown to the right 
(because it's a forward link), it looks strange. Probably it's better to 
ignore the direction when placing (except perhaps when the focus is very 
close to the anchor) and indicate direction by an arrowhead placed on 
the connection, if desired (not that important at this time IMO).

> > - lighter papers, for better readability (maybe with bindings to change)
> >    
>
> Have you set your gamma correctly:
>
>         xgamma -gamma 2
>
> helps.

No. How'm I supposed to guess? ;-)

Seriously, though, yes, this *does* look much better-- except for the 
text quality, it's really good now, visually. Isn't there something we 
can do ourselves here, without requiring the users to resort to external 
programs? (Esp. for a demo that's not too nice...)

- Benja