gv

[Gary Hodges]

On 11/14/05, Christoph Bier <christoph.bier at web.de> wrote:
> Gary Hodges schrieb am 14.11.2005 22:17:
>
> > On 11/14/05, Lee Braiden <lee_b at digitalunleashed.com> wrote:
> >
> >>On Monday 14 November 2005 19:57, Gary Hodges wrote:
> >>
> >>>Just fired up gv for the first time with my newish Kubuntu install.  I
> >>>used gv a lot with SuSE the past two years.  I have multi-page
> >>>postscript plots I produce with IDL.  On each page I add a title that
> >>>is no longer showing up with gv on Kubuntu like it did under SuSE.
> >>>The title is shown with gs.  Also, gv is noticeably slower with
> >>>Kubuntu, but I can likely live with that.  Need the titles though!
> >>
> >>You'll might have better luck with KGhostView and/or KPDF (I think they both
> >>read postscript *and* pdfs to different degrees; not sure).
> >
> > Thanks for the reply.  KGhostView is a suitable replacement for the
> > time being.  I may need to retract my previous statement about living
> > with the slower response.  KGhostView and gv are both slow as compared
> > to gv with SuSE.  Might the slowness be a Xfree86 vs Xorg thing?  I'm
> > running the same hardware.  Would a faster video card "fix" this?
>
> It may be a Xorg thing. I have similar problems with gqview and
> gthumb that did not occur with Debian Sarge on the same hardware and
> I am preparing an email to this list (because of lack of time it's
> unfinished for weeks ...). So, I'm just curious about answers to
> your email. But IMHO buying new hardware should not be the solution.

I don't disagree with your last statement either, but if it is a
solution I will consider it.  I'm paging through postscript files that
are often greater than 600 pages.  If I can spend a couple hundred
bucks to speed this up I'm willing. I guess I should also add I was
running SuSE 9.0 all that time.  I think they have since gone to Xorg,
but I have no experience with that.