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working pdf viewer in 3.3?
by Daniel Frein on Monday 10/May/2004, @10:24

I hope that there will be a working pdf viewer in kde-3.3. With kghostview I can't print about 80% of my pdfs (bug 61922 "null setpagesize", open since 2003-07-31). And kpdf is unusuable in most cases (some graphics are upside-down, troubles with included fonts, hyperlinks are drawn as huge black boxes, very slow,...). I haven't noticed any improvements in the last half year. Not everyone works with pdfs every day, but if you do, you still need acroread...

Daniel

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Re: working pdf viewer in 3.3?
by chris on Monday 10/May/2004, @10:28

looks like they need people for kpdf. please apply :-)

btw. very nice , congratulations for that fast release cycle.

after 3.3 is there a major rewrite for qt 4.0 ?

chris.

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Re: working pdf viewer in 3.3?
by Thomas on Monday 10/May/2004, @22:45

I can recall when kghostview was not working for me too because of the pagesize-bug, but I thought this bug was history...
Problems with kghostview may also originate in ghostview itself. I'm using gs 7.05.6 over here and have no problems with viewing pdfs in kghostview at all.
(Though I can confirm that kpdf is unusable at its current state)

If you have a lot of encrypted pdfs ghostview may also fail. Do you notice any differences when opening the pdf with gv?

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Re: working pdf viewer in 3.3?
by Daniel Frein on Monday 10/May/2004, @23:38

I always thougt that this bug was directly related to kghostview. But you're right, it is located somewhere in gs. The postscript files created by kghostview, gv and pdf2ps are identical. I'm using gs-gpl 8.01 and gs-common 0.3.5 (debian sid).

Daniel

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Re: working pdf viewer in 3.3?
by Asokan on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @00:08

Among the kviewshell components kdvi has of late gained
major performance boost. Can't these improvements be
made to other components as well ?

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Re: working pdf viewer in 3.3?
by Nobody on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @04:05

Or better yet move everything to/as gv-backend (fork for kde) and then make all apps like kpdf/kghostview/kdvi use it (until merged in to a single frontend for kde-4.0)? ;-)

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