The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers

Posted Nov 30, 2004 1:56 UTC (Tue) by dns (subscriber, #4239)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers

When talking about the PDF viewers that depend on Ghostscript
for rendering the pages, it is important to take note of the
particular version of Ghostscript that is being invoked.

Ghostscript itself has come a long way over the past few years.
Colour, font-rendering, and general PDF-handling have all advanced.

The latest AFPL version is 8.33, which is actually a beta for
soon-to-be-released 8.50. The somewhat older but recently
updated GPL version is also a far cry from a year or so ago.

What version of ghostscript are you using on your machine?

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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers

Posted Nov 30, 2004 12:33 UTC (Tue) by jayavarman (subscriber, #19600) [Link]

The problem here (in Debian) is when you have CUPS installed which forces you to have as the default GS the ESP version (7.07) even if you have the latest GNU GS. It's a shame...

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers

Posted Nov 30, 2004 22:07 UTC (Tue) by amaze (guest, #21978) [Link]

Try setting your gnome-gv Interpreter (Edit -> PostScript Viewer Preferences, Ghostscript -> Interpreter) to gs-esp (or gs-afpl, depends on which one you've got installed). It's not ideal, but it works for ggv, at least.