Re: [Cooker] Re: [Bug 1148] [ggv] ggv pdf rendering under gnome 2.2 looks terrible

2003-07-29 Thread andre
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 20:03, Abel Cheung wrote:
> On 2003-07-16(Wed) 19:50:24 +0200, Olivier Blin wrote:
> > > Anyway, pdf displaying ability is OFFICIALLY not supported, and can
> > > be removed anytime. So don't put expection to it in the future. :-/
> >
> > ok, thanks for your explanations :)
> > But I can't imagine why it would be removed, ggv uses gs to convert pdf
> > files into ps files, it's quite simple to handle ...
>
> An application dedicated to displaying PDF (gpdf is inherited
> from xpdf) is always (or will be) better than one that tries
> to mimic the function just by conversion, isn't it?  :)
>
> Abel
except that sometimes xpdf doesn't work with a pdf file an gv does.




Re: [Cooker] Re: [Bug 1148] [ggv] ggv pdf rendering under gnome 2.2 looks terrible

2003-07-16 Thread Abel Cheung
On 2003-07-16(Wed) 19:50:24 +0200, Olivier Blin wrote:
> > Anyway, pdf displaying ability is OFFICIALLY not supported, and can
> > be removed anytime. So don't put expection to it in the future. :-/
> 
> ok, thanks for your explanations :)
> But I can't imagine why it would be removed, ggv uses gs to convert pdf files into 
> ps files, it's quite simple to handle ...

An application dedicated to displaying PDF (gpdf is inherited
from xpdf) is always (or will be) better than one that tries
to mimic the function just by conversion, isn't it?  :)

Abel

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Re: [Cooker] Re: [Bug 1148] [ggv] ggv pdf rendering under gnome 2.2 looks terrible

2003-07-16 Thread Abel Cheung
On 2003-07-16(Wed) 18:20:42 +0200, Olivier Blin wrote:
> > http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003071600926NWGNRL
> 
> "it's not what the new release brings, but what it doesn't anymore: GGV no longer 
> registers as a viewer for PDF files, leaving this role to GPdf."
> 
> I understand this sentence as "GPDF is now the default PDF viewer in Gnome", this 
> doesn't mean that pdf is no longer supported in ggv.
> The PDF attached in the bug report now looks good in GGV, so the bug should be 
> marked as fixed instead of wontfix :-)

Anyway, pdf displaying ability is OFFICIALLY not supported, and can
be removed anytime. So don't put expection to it in the future. :-/

Abel

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[Cooker] Re: [Bug 1148] [ggv] ggv pdf rendering under gnome 2.2 looks terrible

2003-07-16 Thread David Walser
Olivier Blin wrote:
>> No more, maintainer is officially removing pdf support from ggv.
>> It has been decided quite some time ago. You're quoting outdated
>> info.
> 
> So, where can I get up to date info about ggv ? :-)
> Even the current GGV user manual says that GGV supports PDF rendering.

http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003071600926NWGNRL