The latest ggv-1.99.98 was marked as stable and included with the gnome-2.2-r1 ebuild, so I got it with that. But it simply doesn't display any text. 1.99.95 works fine, and that's what I switched back to. Tested it on two boxes, Gentoo 1.2 and 1.4rc2, it's the same on both. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
works fine for me, note that ggv is mainly targeted at displaying ps files afaik. For pdfs they want to introduce gpdf in time. (may be unrelated to your case) Any console output btw when trying to display something ?
No console output at all. Pages are listed properly, but no content. I'm working with lots of Ps- and PDF-files, and none of them works, while all work in 1.99.95. No idea why. Maybe 1.99.95 left unuseable setting for 1.99.98 in gconf or whereever? Both installations were upgrades from a 1.99.95, which was in use on my account before.
I have similar problems with 1.99.98. Font rendering was corrupted for me. The only words that I can think of that would describe the fonts are: blotchy and corroded. If you've ever seen a savage2000 render fonts, then you know what they look like. Ditto for aggressive jpeg compression of screenshots. I'm also downgrading until this problem is fixed.
can you attach a problematic document ?
All documents are problematic for me. The problem is, antialiasing doesn't seem to be working, even though the preference is checked. It seems to be ignoring the -sDEVICE=x11alpha thing. I'm using Gentoo 1.4, xfree 4.3.0, ggv 1.99.98, OpenBox 2.3.0. Note that I'm not actually running Gnome 2.2, although it's installed. I do get some sort of CORBA error every time i start a gnome app, that is probably unrelated to this issue. Note that the following DOES display the pdf pretty: /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=x11alpha example.pdf
I have verified that 1.99.95 works as expected. It should be noted that I did NOT recieve the CORBA message as before with this version. 1.99.96 is the first version that seems broken on my system. It does not antialias PDF documents properly. The homepage for ggv is: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/ggv/ Since the problem was introduced in 1.99.96, it's worth checking out the differences between 1.99.95 and 1.99.96. I skimmed the ChangeLog, but I don't really know what to look for: http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/ggv/ChangeLog -rgm
and if you just as a test run ggv in a normal gnome session ? Does that make a difference ? .96 and .97 are known to have problems with some documents, but those problems shouldve been fixed afaik. So that might be unrelated. What exactly is the CORBA error you are getting ?
I had trouble getting the app to load at all. Seems that it hangs on startup leaving me with a process to kill and a ggv-postscript process hanging around. Had to kill ggv-postscript using top, as ggv-postscript- wouldn't die using killall, perhaps due to the trailing "-". I unmerge -C 'ed it and re emerged the package to which it began downloading gnome-doc / gtk-doc or something to that effect. Leading me to conjure from my brain, that perhaps the dependencies for the build were not properly set at one time? After re-emerging the application loads and displays... but informs me that my configuration files are out of date... "An error occurred while loading..." dialog comes up. The details call out that session management was wanted with the application... typical of gnome apps... always expecting session management. Successfully loaded a .ps file and a .pdf after this as well. Can't save any application settings without a session management ORB running as well.
any news here ? is it all a session management thing ?
ggv-2.0.0 is in ~ , please see if that fixes your problem. Its changelog mentions a locale fix, which caused empty pages.
Huh, another list-reader, no surprise. :) That's just what I wanted to write down here, and indeed I have a custom locale (german) here and the bklank pages (see above), so that should fix it. Gonna sync and try it out.
Hmm, hard to judge. Concerning the display of correct/sane documents, it works wonderfully just like ghostview does. But coming to corrupt/malicious/whatever documents, ghostview quickly shows me a message with the error, but ggv-2.0 is loading and loading, consuming insane amounts of RAM and naking the whole desktop choke until it pops up "unreadable document" or something like that. :) I can live with it, it didn't crash yet, in contrast to .98 it's working, and in contrast to .95 it has the new "open on full width"-option which I've been waiting for so long. Concerning me, it is the new stable version on my desktops, thanks for the immediate ebuild!
2.0 fixes it, closing
