From 3e7bfa0570c15e6c61543cf4634465cb4d69c67b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Uleysky Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 23:38:43 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Create README.md --- README.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea5e4d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# gsview-overlay + Overlay for the gsview and some other plotting/scientific soft. + +Gsview is a very old ghostscript-based viewer for postscript and pdf files. +It's written on gtk1 and therefore was thrown out of the Gentoo repository along with gtk1. +There are many modern PS/PDF viewers, but gsview has a number of unique features that make it irreplaceable +when writing your own postscript code. +1) Presence of a ruler for measuring coordinates. +You can get the coordinates of any element of the picture in points, centimeters or inches. +It is useful, for example, when you need to insert only a selected area of a large eps file in a latex document. +2) Sequential rendering. You can see the drawing of the picture as the file is processed. Sometimes useful, always fun. +3) Magnification of the picture fragment. There is no need to wait drawing the whole picture in high resolution, +so the magnification can be made very large. + +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, +which depends on imlib.