output of dvips too large in gs2.5

Thread View: gnu.ghostscript.bug

3 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

3 total messages Started by Andreas Schilling Tue, 08 Sep 1992 07:33

#353

Author: Andreas Schilling
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 07:33

30 lines
1543 bytes

GS25 (MSDOS) works fine here, but I am not any more able to preview my TeX
documents. The PS files produced with dvips are scaled with a factor of
about 1.5 and thus don't fit on the screen any more. All the other PS files 
are displayed in the correct size.

Another question:
I can't understand the red pixels in the white area outside the red circle in
the gnognus.ps (part of samples.zip on simtel20).

/inch { 72 mul } def
/no {
       gsave
       newpath
       .5 inch setlinewidth
       1 1 1 sethsbcolor
       4.25 inch 5 inch 3 inch 45 45 180 add arc
       closepath
       4.25 inch 5 inch 3 inch 45 180 add 45 arc
       stroke
       grestore
} def
no
showpage

Andreas Schilling
--
|            Andreas  Schilling            |     Universitaet Tuebingen     |
| andreas@gris.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de |   Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut   |
|          tel.: +49 7071 29 5463          |   Auf der Morgenstelle 10/C9   |
|          fax.: +49 7071 29 5400          | D-7400 Tuebingen, West Germany |

Re: output of dvips too large in gs2.5

#359

Author: Andreas Schilling
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:20

22 lines
1586 bytes

I wrote:

>GS25 (MSDOS) works fine here, but I am not any more able to preview my TeX
>documents. The PS files produced with dvips are scaled with a factor of
>about 1.5 and thus don't fit on the screen any more. All the other PS files 
>are displayed in the correct size.

An additional hint:

If I replace all occurences of a4 (my paper size, works exactly the same with
letter) with a1234 in my PS file, then the scaling is fine. Maybe dvips uses
a4 in a different way than GS, or maybe setting the paper size in GS uses the
horizontal size of the screen and the document to fit the size???

At least the TeX output can be previewed again with GS.

Andreas Schilling
--
|            Andreas  Schilling            |     Universitaet Tuebingen     |
| andreas@gris.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de |   Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut   |
|          tel.: +49 7071 29 5463          |   Auf der Morgenstelle 10/C9   |
|          fax.: +49 7071 29 5400          | D-7400 Tuebingen, West Germany |

Re: output of dvips too large in gs2.5

#369

Author: Russell Lang
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 06:59

19 lines
1458 bytes

iigsa01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Andreas Schilling) writes:
>If I replace all occurences of a4 (my paper size, works exactly the same with
>letter) with a1234 in my PS file, then the scaling is fine. Maybe dvips uses
>a4 in a different way than GS, or maybe setting the paper size in GS uses the
>horizontal size of the screen and the document to fit the size???

It is a bug in gs 2.5.  Should be fixed in the next version of gs.
It is doing exactly what you think - matching the width of the paper
to the width of the screen.

If you have a compiler and the time to recompile ghostscript,
change line 369 of gsdevice.c from:
    double ratio = max(width_ratio, height_ratio);
to
    double ratio = min(width_ratio, height_ratio);
-- 
Russell Lang   Email: rjl@fawlty4.eng.monash.edu.au   Phone: (03) 565 3460
Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Monash University, Australia

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads