Font problems with gv

bdufour · Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 3:23 pm Post subject: Font problems with gv

When trying to view ps files with gv, I get very ugly fonts. I can still read the text, but characters appear to be somewhat jagged. However, when using kghostview, everything is fine and the text is displayed using a very nice font.

Does anyone know how to fix this? I don't know much about fonts....

Here's a list of relevant software versions on my system:
gv: 3.5.8-r2
ghostscript: 7.05.5
kde: 3.1.1a

ralph · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 2001 Location: Hamburg

you have to tell gv to antialias the fonts.
press state and select antialias.

MathFreak · Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 4:27 pm Post subject:

Alternatively, you can create a .gv file in you home directory with the line

bdufour · Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 10:43 pm Post subject:

Thanks a lot, it works perfectly. I don't know how I missed this

ikshaar · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 2:18 pm Post subject:

I have same problem with ggv, but checking anti-aliasing did not solve it ... it changes a little bit the fonts but really not enough to be readable. Any clues ?

Edit : In fact, it did not change the fonts at all... it refreshs screen but it re-displays exactly same...

PS : AA fonts work otherwise and works in gv.
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crazy-bee · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 170

Let me join the party. Fonts in ggv do look un-readable. AA-Fonts were already turned on. in XPDF, everything works perfect.

ikshaar · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 5:08 pm Post subject:

Well, at least I found the reason why !!!
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106131

So apparently, it's a known problem but will not be solved as ggv will drop reading pdf file. Instead gpdf (based on xpdf) will be the official gnome2.4 pdf viewer...
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