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# gsview-overlay
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Overlay for the gsview and some other plotting/scientific soft.
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Gsview is a very old ghostscript-based viewer for postscript and pdf files.
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It's written on gtk1 and therefore was thrown out of the Gentoo repository along with gtk1.
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There are many modern PS/PDF viewers, but gsview has a number of unique features that make it irreplaceable
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when writing your own postscript code.
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1) Presence of a ruler for measuring coordinates.
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You can get the coordinates of any element of the picture in points, centimeters or inches.
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It is useful, for example, when you need to insert only a selected area of a large eps file in a latex document.
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2) Sequential rendering. You can see the drawing of the picture as the file is processed. Sometimes useful, always fun.
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3) Magnification of the picture fragment. There is no need to wait drawing the whole picture in high resolution,
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so the magnification can be made very large.
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For gsview we need gtk+-1.2 and glib-1.2. In order not to cry bloody tears, it's better to install gtk-engines,
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which depends on imlib.
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