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Efraim Yawitz | 1 Feb 2006 11:37
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Adobe Reader vs. Ghostscript

Hi,

I have a PDF file (a scanned book) which appears much clearer in Adobe Acrobat Reader than in Ghostscript
(gv, actually).  Evidently, Adobe does some kind of smoothing that Ghostscript doesn't.  Does anyone know
a setting or something to make Ghostscript also do this or is it just not implemented?

BTW, I recently went to Adobe's site to download the Reader, and discovered that you can only get the latest
version for Linux, version 7.  This ran very slowly on my old (256MHz) machine, and I dug out a copy of version
5 from my CD's, which works much better.  This made me realize that it would be worthwhile to have a mirror of
such old proprietary files somewhere.  Does anyone know if this is being done, and if it is legal?

Ephraim

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Dan Kenigsberg | 1 Feb 2006 13:03
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Re: Adobe Reader vs. Ghostscript

> some kind of smoothing that Ghostscript doesn't.  Does anyone know a 
> setting or something to make Ghostscript also do this or is it just not 
> implemented?

Does 
	gv --antialias 
make it better?

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Omer Zak | 1 Feb 2006 13:57
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Re: Adobe Reader vs. Ghostscript

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:37 +0200, Efraim Yawitz wrote:
> I have a PDF file (a scanned book) which appears much clearer in Adobe Acrobat Reader than in Ghostscript
(gv, actually).  Evidently, Adobe does some kind of smoothing that Ghostscript doesn't.  Does anyone know
a setting or something to make Ghostscript also do this or is it just not implemented?

Did you try other PDF viewers?
In my Debian Sarge installation, I have gpdf, kpdf and xpdf.

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Leonid Podolny | 1 Feb 2006 14:08
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JTAG flashing at linux


Hi, list,
I currently investigate if it's possible to reprogram the PLD on our
card via JTAG using open software tools. Currently we use the xilinx
proprietary utility.
After some googling around I have suprisingly come up with almost
nothing. There is a jtag project (which is dormant for about three years
and thus doesn't support the flash chip on our card) and that's about
it. This just doesn't make any sense -- the flashing process is IEEE
standartized and the chips are wide-spread (Xilinx XCF family). I don't
think it's possible that noone tried to flash them before me.
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Gilboa Davara | 1 Feb 2006 10:51
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Re: Adobe Reader vs. Ghostscript

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:37 +0200, Efraim Yawitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a PDF file (a scanned book) which appears much clearer in Adobe Acrobat Reader than in Ghostscript
(gv, actually).  Evidently, Adobe does some kind of smoothing that Ghostscript doesn't.  Does anyone know
a setting or something to make Ghostscript also do this or is it just not implemented?
> 
> BTW, I recently went to Adobe's site to download the Reader, and discovered that you can only get the latest
version for Linux, version 7.  This ran very slowly on my old (256MHz) machine, and I dug out a copy of version
5 from my CD's, which works much better.  This made me realize that it would be worthwhile to have a mirror of
such old proprietary files somewhere.  Does anyone know if this is being done, and if it is legal?
> 
> Ephraim
> 

Did you try viewing the file in kpdf (KDE), evince (GNOME) or xpdf?
Both kpdf and evince should be just as good as Acrobat Reader.

Gilboa

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Michael Green | 1 Feb 2006 16:01
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ssh X tunneling: draw/redraw problems

Anyone stumbled upon a phenomena that when a remote process' DISPLAY
is tunneled thru ssh its window doesn't appear drawn fully, i.e. part
is perfectly visible with buttons and panels and all the widgets while
the other half is blank grey?
While disabling ssh tunneling of X solves this.
Or I've seen another qwirck attributed to X/ssh tunneling: window open
extremely small. So small you cannot catch their lower right corner to
expand them.

Anyone?
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Gilboa Davara | 1 Feb 2006 17:34
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[Job Offer] Jobinfo looking for UNIX/Linux developer(s) in Jerusalem

Hello all,

I'm not sure I'm not breaking the list's rules by posting this. (I'm not
the one looking for an employee; I'm just trying to help)
Never the less here's the original message:
______________________________________________________

I am looking for outstanding C++ on unix/linux developers (server side,
drivers) with 2-5 years of expertise (advantage for security/networking
field), for a very interesting group in one of the more exquisite
software companies in Jerusalem. Development will be from scratch!
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For more information, C.Vs, etc:
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Hope it helps someone...
Gilboa

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Efraim Yawitz | 1 Feb 2006 20:04
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Re: Adobe Reader vs. Ghostscript


On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Omer Zak wrote:

> Did you try other PDF viewers?
> In my Debian Sarge installation, I have gpdf, kpdf and xpdf.

Thanks.  I just downloaded the newest xpdf and it looks great.  I had remembered having problems with this
program, but I guess that was with earlier versions.

Any thoughts from anyone about Adobe's policy, and whether it is good to make some kind of repository of such
old stuff?

Ephraim

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Shlomo Solomon | 1 Feb 2006 19:19
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Re: Adobe Reader vs. Ghostscript

On Wednesday 01 February 2006 21:04, Efraim Yawitz wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Omer Zak wrote:
> > Did you try other PDF viewers?
> > In my Debian Sarge installation, I have gpdf, kpdf and xpdf.
>
> Thanks.  I just downloaded the newest xpdf and it looks great.  I had
> remembered having problems with this program, but I guess that was with
> earlier versions.
>
> Any thoughts from anyone about Adobe's policy, and whether it is good to
> make some kind of repository of such old stuff?

I recently downloaded Acrobat 5.10  from here:
https://pfs.mozilla.org/plugins/?application=firefox

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Dvir Volk | 2 Feb 2006 11:03

Spam: [Job Offer] Looking for a freelance Linux Web developer

Hi,
For my new project, ILCU.com (it's a social event sharing site. 
shameless plug: can be used for LUG meetings :) ),
I'm looking for a freelance web developer to help me out (it can grow to 
a full time job in a matter of weeks).

I'm looking for someone creative, who knows his stuff around:
PHP, MySQL, XML/DOM, AJAX & JS in general, XSL,
preferably good system knowledge, and of course HTML/CSS and standards.

Feel free to pass this around.

Cheers,

Dvir Volk
http://www.ilcu.com

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