Re: PDF Viewer

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi all,

> > This description is not very clear. But I guess the most probable 
> > reason is that you do not use antialiasing (output device "x11"). gs 
> > should be called with the option "-sx11alpha" to enable it.
> No, I meant "-sDEVICE=x11alpha"

This helps for reading. Using

        gs -q -sDEVICE=x11alpha

presents the PDF crystal clear on screen. But using this device 
ghostscript does not write TIFFs and that's what we need if we want to 
read the pages with NSImage and present them in an image view.

I had a quick glance on PopplerKit/Vindaloo but this thing is a monster 
(many lines of codes, many dependencies) and probably takes days if not 
weeks to work through, time I unfortuantely do not have right now. So I 
am still out of luck (PDFViewer for viewing and printing). :-(

I just tried

	gs -dNOPASUE -q -sDEVICE=pngalpha -dBATH 
-sOutputfile=/home/ahoesch/AAA%d.png Test.pdf

This delivers good results. Bingo! I will follow the gs route.

Thanks a lot to all that responded!

Regards,

  Andreas