Re: Landscape Postscript Problems
Again this old topic... hopefully my last mail about this. The problem was that landscape mode in gv(/ghostview) clipped the page contents wrongly. I will try if newer version of xpdf could do the pdf-ps conversion xpdf 0.9 was able to convert the pdf file back to postscript, but the resulting postscript had still the same problem. Dead end here. But: "pstops" from psutils (http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html) was able to modify the postscript file so that it began to work correctly. Type pstops 0 broken.ps fixed.ps the create a new version of broken.ps, that will work correctly. I tested this only with one Postscript file tough... I heard many linux distributions come with psutils, so maybe you have it already installed. The real bug (in gv) still remains unfixed :(
Re: Landscape Postscript Problems
Again this old topic... hopefully my last mail about this. The problem was that landscape mode in gv(/ghostview) clipped the page contents wrongly. I will try if newer version of xpdf could do the pdf-ps conversion xpdf 0.9 was able to convert the pdf file back to postscript, but the resulting postscript had still the same problem. Dead end here. But: "pstops" from psutils (http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html) was able to modify the postscript file so that it began to work correctly. Type pstops 0 broken.ps fixed.ps the create a new version of broken.ps, that will work correctly. I tested this only with one Postscript file tough... I heard many linux distributions come with psutils, so maybe you have it already installed. The real bug (in gv) still remains unfixed :(
Re: Landscape Postscript Problems
Again this old topic... hopefully my last mail about this. The problem was that landscape mode in gv(/ghostview) clipped the page contents wrongly. > I will try if newer version of xpdf could do the pdf->ps conversion xpdf 0.9 was able to convert the pdf file back to postscript, but the resulting postscript had still the same problem. Dead end here. But: "pstops" from psutils (http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html) was able to modify the postscript file so that it began to work correctly. Type pstops 0 broken.ps fixed.ps the create a new version of broken.ps, that will work correctly. I tested this only with one Postscript file tough... I heard many linux distributions come with psutils, so maybe you have it already installed. The real bug (in gv) still remains unfixed :(
Landscape Postscript Problems
I found that Aladdin GSView for Windows has not the problem of "text cut on the right", belonging (probably) to wrong bounding box. Also ghostview 1.5 on UX-HP works well... (old ghostscript 2.6.1 !) I think that only GV by Johannes Plass has the bug. So I'll use GSView for Winz :- for my presentation... Stay Tuned, Emanuele
Re: Landscape Postscript Problems
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Emanuele Olivetti wrote: I found that Aladdin GSView for Windows has not the problem of "text cut on the right", belonging (probably) to wrong bounding box. Also ghostview 1.5 on UX-HP works well... (old ghostscript 2.6.1 !) I think that only GV by Johannes Plass has the bug. Ghostview 1.5 with Ghostscript 5.50 on a Solaris box defintely HAS the problem. GV 3.5.8 (the usual version) with Ghostscript 5.10 does also have the bug. Ghostscript 3.33 was unable to read my test file at all :( Maybe GV and ghostview are incompatable with newer versions of Ghostscript? More test cases from anyone? And to all readers on lyx mailinglist too: - One solution is to use "ps2ps" (comes with ghostscript), but the resulting Postscript file is horrible. (ps2pdf followed pdf2ps produces the same horrible Postscript file) - Better way is to convert it to, say, JPGs, rotate them, and view with Xv. - The best way so far is to use "ps2pdf", open the file in Acrobat Reader, and use "print to file" in acroread. I will try if newer version of xpdf could do the pdf-ps conversion (0.5 was unable to read the pdf file).
Landscape Postscript Problems
I found that Aladdin GSView for Windows has not the problem of "text cut on the right", belonging (probably) to wrong bounding box. Also ghostview 1.5 on UX-HP works well... (old ghostscript 2.6.1 !) I think that only GV by Johannes Plass has the bug. So I'll use GSView for Winz :- for my presentation... Stay Tuned, Emanuele
Re: Landscape Postscript Problems
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Emanuele Olivetti wrote: I found that Aladdin GSView for Windows has not the problem of "text cut on the right", belonging (probably) to wrong bounding box. Also ghostview 1.5 on UX-HP works well... (old ghostscript 2.6.1 !) I think that only GV by Johannes Plass has the bug. Ghostview 1.5 with Ghostscript 5.50 on a Solaris box defintely HAS the problem. GV 3.5.8 (the usual version) with Ghostscript 5.10 does also have the bug. Ghostscript 3.33 was unable to read my test file at all :( Maybe GV and ghostview are incompatable with newer versions of Ghostscript? More test cases from anyone? And to all readers on lyx mailinglist too: - One solution is to use "ps2ps" (comes with ghostscript), but the resulting Postscript file is horrible. (ps2pdf followed pdf2ps produces the same horrible Postscript file) - Better way is to convert it to, say, JPGs, rotate them, and view with Xv. - The best way so far is to use "ps2pdf", open the file in Acrobat Reader, and use "print to file" in acroread. I will try if newer version of xpdf could do the pdf-ps conversion (0.5 was unable to read the pdf file).
Landscape Postscript Problems
I found that Aladdin GSView for Windows has not the problem of "text cut on the right", belonging (probably) to wrong bounding box. Also ghostview 1.5 on UX-HP works well... (old ghostscript 2.6.1 !) I think that only GV by Johannes Plass has the bug. So I'll use GSView for Winz :-< for my presentation... Stay Tuned, Emanuele
Re: Landscape Postscript Problems
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Emanuele Olivetti wrote: > I found that Aladdin GSView for Windows has not the problem of "text cut > on the right", belonging (probably) to wrong bounding box. > Also ghostview 1.5 on UX-HP works well... (old ghostscript 2.6.1 !) > I think that only GV by Johannes Plass has the bug. Ghostview 1.5 with Ghostscript 5.50 on a Solaris box defintely HAS the problem. GV 3.5.8 (the usual version) with Ghostscript 5.10 does also have the bug. Ghostscript 3.33 was unable to read my test file at all :( Maybe GV and ghostview are incompatable with newer versions of Ghostscript? More test cases from anyone? And to all readers on lyx mailinglist too: - One solution is to use "ps2ps" (comes with ghostscript), but the resulting Postscript file is horrible. (ps2pdf followed pdf2ps produces the same horrible Postscript file) - Better way is to convert it to, say, JPGs, rotate them, and view with Xv. - The best way so far is to use "ps2pdf", open the file in Acrobat Reader, and use "print to file" in acroread. I will try if newer version of xpdf could do the pdf->ps conversion (0.5 was unable to read the pdf file).
