* [gentoo-user] kghostview pdf aspect distorted!
@ 2006-03-20 1:40 Iain Buchanan
2006-03-20 1:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Iain Buchanan
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From: Iain Buchanan @ 2006-03-20 1:40 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Hi all,
When I open any pdf from any source (home-made or downloaded) in
kghostview, they seem to be "stretched" wider than normal. Also the
font is some ugly fixed-width font.
However, in acrobat, or evince, the pdf's show nicely (correct aspect
and fonts).
You can see what I mean about the aspect here, but this is not my rig.
I just found this when searching for the problem online. (Incidentally,
I couldn't find an answer either):
http://onfinite.com/libraries/145774/735.jpg
I've tried manually setting the page size to A4 but no difference.
Printing works great though!
Any ideas? Thanks!
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* [gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!
2006-03-20 1:40 [gentoo-user] kghostview pdf aspect distorted! Iain Buchanan
@ 2006-03-20 1:45 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-03-20 1:53 ` Joseph
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From: Iain Buchanan @ 2006-03-20 1:45 UTC (permalink / raw
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oops, should have said:
$ kghostview --version
Qt: 3.3.6
KDE: 3.5.1
KGhostView: 0.20
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!
2006-03-20 1:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Iain Buchanan
@ 2006-03-20 1:53 ` Joseph
2006-03-20 2:21 ` Iain Buchanan
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From: Joseph @ 2006-03-20 1:53 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
What ghostscrip are you using?
If you have ghostscript-esp replace it with ghostscript-gnu and the
problems will go away.
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#Joseph
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 11:15 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> oops, should have said:
>
> $ kghostview --version
> Qt: 3.3.6
> KDE: 3.5.1
> KGhostView: 0.20
>
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> Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au>
>
> There's no such thing as a free lunch.
> -- Milton Friendman
>
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!
2006-03-20 1:53 ` Joseph
@ 2006-03-20 2:21 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-03-20 2:38 ` JimD
2006-03-20 12:20 ` Philip Webb
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From: Iain Buchanan @ 2006-03-20 2:21 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 18:53 -0700, Joseph wrote:
> What ghostscrip are you using?
> If you have ghostscript-esp replace it with ghostscript-gnu and the
> problems will go away.
I tried that (unmerged esp, emerged gnu), and it doesn't seem to make
any difference. I even rebuilt one of my own pdfs - no difference. The
font is still weird and the aspect is stretched.
any more ideas?
thanks,
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!
2006-03-20 2:21 ` Iain Buchanan
@ 2006-03-20 2:38 ` JimD
2006-03-20 12:20 ` Philip Webb
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From: JimD @ 2006-03-20 2:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> any more ideas?
>
> thanks,
Try strace on evince and then strace on kghostview and see if kghostview
is opening up a weird font or if it is doing anything really different
than evince.
Also, you could look at the README from kghostview and see who the
maintainer is can shoot him an email to see if this problem has come up
before.
Jim
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!
2006-03-20 2:21 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-03-20 2:38 ` JimD
@ 2006-03-20 12:20 ` Philip Webb
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From: Philip Webb @ 2006-03-20 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
060320 Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 18:53 -0700, Joseph wrote:
>> If you have ghostscript-esp replace it with ghostscript-gnu
> I tried that and it doesn't seem to make any difference.
I have -esp & don't have your problem with Kghostview.
However, it does reproduce an OO-created .pdf with an ugly font,
whereas Kpdf 3.5.1 reproduces it very nicely. I suggest using Kpdf instead.
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