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RE: is this version running on haiku?

By laplace - Posted on March 23, 2009 - 07:23:17 (#23104)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.1.1 Beta 1

Yes, it does. I have tested it with an older version of Haiku only.

I will update the optional Haiku package today. So it should be available soon in the alpha build.

is this version running on haiku?

By lelldorin - Posted on March 22, 2009 - 21:18:46 (#23103)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.1.1 Beta 1

Is this version running on haiku? The version of the pre alpha image does not run.

RE: Oh, I see...

By laplace - Posted on February 1, 2006 - 12:11:17 (#18973)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

That is not planned.

Oh, I see...

By Kevin_Field - Posted on February 1, 2006 - 07:00:25 (#18970)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

It's already the reduced size...oops. So is a vector method planned?

Kev

RE: Dev version still printing huge...

By laplace - Posted on January 31, 2006 - 07:51:52 (#18961)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

This is as expected. BePDF rasterizes the entire page into a bitmap with 300 DPI and 24 BPP and sends this to the printer driver. Approx. required memory size in MB is width * height * 300 * 300 * 3 / 1024 / 1024, with width and height in inches.

Dev version still printing huge...

By Kevin_Field - Posted on January 30, 2006 - 18:02:25 (#18950)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

I got the dev version you linked to, but it still prints PDF files at 29.6 MB/page regardless of how complex the page is or what resolution I print at. Hmm...

Kev

Restore page after refresh (was Awesome)

By laplace - Posted on October 6, 2005 - 07:46:03 (#17944)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

I consider this as a bug. Should be fixed in the next release.

RE: RE: Awesome

By Ram - Posted on October 5, 2005 - 06:35:37 (#17939)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

Improvement such as ...

remember the page (AND position in page) being viewed and restore it when the "Reload" happens. For example, I'm having a PDF file open in BePDF. I'm updating the PDF file (rewriting rather) usign pdflatex ..

now BePDF is intelligent enough to monitor the file and reload it when it's changed... that's cool. What would be cooler is if it restored it to the correct page when it reloads it. That would be super good for "previewing" purpose where in a huge 130+ page document, each time I compile using pdflatex for small changes I need to scroll all the way down to see them...

Nice app! I'm loving the "Hinting" option being turned off... cool.

RE: Awesome

By laplace - Posted on October 4, 2005 - 18:56:39 (#17938)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

You are welcome.

Luckily, there is still lots of potential for improvements ;-)

By vsucks - Posted on October 4, 2005 - 01:55:33 (#17930)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

I've never really appreciated BePDF until now, to be honest. I thought it was just your ho-hum PDF viewer. But the annotation tools are dead useful. Kudos on bringing BePDF up to par with its equals in the Windows, Linux, and Mac world!

By sanders - Posted on September 9, 2005 - 16:13:26 (#17700)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

Thanks, this version works great. It's also much faster than 0.9.4, so I'm glad I can replace that now :-)

Test binary

By laplace - Posted on September 4, 2005 - 18:18:49 (#17639)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

I have decided to make the current development version available here for testing. Please report any bugs you find. This way I want to shorten the time until the final version 1.0 can be released.

http://bepdf.sourceforge.net/temp/BePDF.zip (1 MB)

This is the binary only. Extract it into the BePDF folder.

Changes:
- New: Made FreeType2 hinting configurable.
- New: Implemented file block cache to improve rendering speed. Max. cache size limited to 4 MB. Especially rendering time of Type 3 fonts decreases enormously. Some pages are rendered 10 to 25 times faster now! Opening a document is faster as well.
- Bug fix: Printer Settings remembers color mode.
- Bug fix: Reduce amount of memory while printing. Limited to max. 300 DPI to avoid running out of memory and crashing/freezing BeOS.
- Bug fix: Update status window when opening a document.

RE: Hinting [was Anti-aliasing

By sanders - Posted on September 4, 2005 - 14:37:24 (#17633)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

Thanks! The main reason, like I said, is to allow the trade-off between crispy readability (with hinting on) and the best possible rendering of the final, printed-out page (with hinting off). The latter is great for when you're designing documents yourself, and want to judge what a particular choice of fonts will do for the "greyness" and overall looks of your pages.

RE: Hinting [was Anti-aliasing]

By laplace - Posted on September 4, 2005 - 10:55:03 (#17628)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

OK you have convinced me. Hinting is now runtime configurable again.
The changes are alrady in CVS repo. The next Beta version will probably be released after 2005/9/16.

Anti-aliasing

By sanders - Posted on September 3, 2005 - 22:14:56 (#17623)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

I'm not looking to disable anti-aliasing (heaven forbid!), I just want to disable hinting. Please please consider allowing me to switch off hinting.

RE: Rendering Preferences

By laplace - Posted on September 3, 2005 - 13:41:37 (#17618)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

It is unlikely that these preferences will return.

Disabling font anti-aliasing is not an option for viewing on a display, because rendering quality is not acceptable if it is disabled. For a preview I suggest to use the Preview printer driver. With Haiku print_server or in Zeta you can change the printer in the print settings dialog.

With xpdf 3.0 the PDF renderer moved from a BeOS specific renderer, which was under my control, to a platform independent PDF rasterizer into xpdf. In xpdf hinting is enabled/disabled at compile time and can not be changed at runtime. At the moment I do not plan to change this.

I have not yet fully investigated what causes font rendering quality degeneration. All fonts are now rendered with FreeType. There should only be a difference in rendering quality, if base 14 fonts are rendered. In versions prior to 1.0 the BeOS font renderer has been used for these.

Rendering Preferences

By sanders - Posted on September 2, 2005 - 17:32:47 (#17608)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

Hmm... I was still using 0.9.4, but the rendering quality there was much better IMHO - the 1.0 version seems to lack the Freetype preferences to disable hinting and switch on anti-aliasing (which gives a better preview of what a page will look like on paper).

Will these preferences return?

Thank you...

By kraton. - Posted on September 2, 2005 - 09:26:58 (#17603)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

Everything is clear now...

Great piece of work...

RE: Ghostscript

By laplace - Posted on September 1, 2005 - 14:30:21 (#17602)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

Ghostscript is not supported anymore. Previous versions allowed to render pages using Ghostscript (if it was installed; you had to download it separately).
This option was provided because of several rendering issues of the old BeOS specific PDF renderer (because of differences in the graphics models of BeOS and PDF).
Since BePDF version 1 uses xpdf 3.0 which has its own PDF rasterizer these issues have been fixed.

PS: Sorry for sounding harsh in one of my previous posts.

By laplace - Posted on September 1, 2005 - 14:15:21 (#17601)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

It seems you are still using an old version. Make sure that you have installed only one instance of BePDF. The easiest way to find all BePDF binaries is to use the Find panel searching for all BeDPDF Applications.

2 BeOS Mr X

By s_d - Posted on September 1, 2005 - 12:50:45 (#17600)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

Something was wrong with your download and/or installation.
Version 1.0.0 Beta 2 i'm using remembers if pagelist was open, and also there isn't any Ghostscript option in Preferences at all.
Go to File->About and look at version number there

Ghostscript

By kraton. - Posted on September 1, 2005 - 09:36:03 (#17599)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

What about Ghostscript, is it still included?

Just wondering because there is no more link in the preference panel.

By BeOS Mr X - Posted on September 1, 2005 - 01:40:29 (#17596)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

re-downloaded the latest version again (since you said I didnt have it) same thing, it sais libgs.so missing in the preferences under ghostscript. When I go to do a Help.. bug report it opens with Net+ instead of a mail program.

The 'show page list' option does not come on everytime I start a PDF file opening. I'd had it there when I exited and now it wont do it on startup.

I keep on getting this from the error messages window:
Error: Unknown Type 0 character set: Adobe-Identity
BePDF: Warning eofill not supported. Output might not be correct!

Sorry for wasting your time.

RE: Ghostscript

By laplace - Posted on August 30, 2005 - 19:09:13 (#17586)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

I can not reproduce your problems. I guess you are using an older version (pre 1.0.0 beta 1/2). Next time please use the latest version, before you report a problem. Otherwise you are wasting my unpaid time.

RE: Ghostscript

By laplace - Posted on August 30, 2005 - 12:59:55 (#17579)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

These are bugs (though not verified yet). Thanks for reporting.

Ghostscript

By BeOS Mr X - Posted on August 28, 2005 - 20:12:47 (#17564)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

I was looking thru the prefs and I noticed it sais 'Ghostscript libgs.so' missing ...
well what is the ghostscipt renderer , why is there a reason not to include it with BePDF ????
And also - I cannot seem to save the navigation bar and the left side of the window, I would like it to be there on default instead of me clicking on it to display all the time. Thankyou !

RE: problem finding fonts

By laplace - Posted on August 28, 2005 - 10:28:14 (#17560)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 2

Already fixed with Beta 2.

problem finding fonts

By blu - Posted on August 27, 2005 - 18:28:02 (#17558)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Beta 1

after a fresh install on my non-boot partition, error log states:

Error: No display font for 'Courier'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-Bold'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-BoldOblique'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-Oblique'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-Bold'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-BoldOblique'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-Oblique'
Error: No display font for 'Symbol'
Error: No display font for 'Times-Bold'
Error: No display font for 'Times-BoldItalic'
Error: No display font for 'Times-Italic'
Error: No display font for 'Times-Roman'

RE: Not printing

By laplace - Posted on August 7, 2005 - 07:17:24 (#17425)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Alpha 1

Thanks for reporting the bug. I have updated the release notes to list all known bugs.

Not printing (1.0.0a1)

By michael_s - Posted on August 7, 2005 - 00:19:20 (#17422)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Alpha 1

loading symbols
segment violation occurred
00000000 read_fault
printing_thread:sc
frame retaddr
f90f0718 9014de7e Gfx::~Gfx(void) + 0000004e
f90f0730 901437cf Page::displaySlice(OutputDev *, double, double, int, int, int, int, int, int, Links *, Catalog *, int (*)(void *), void *) + 000005eb
f90f07a8 9014388d Page::display(OutputDev *, double, double, int, int, Links *, Catalog *, int (*)(void *), void *) + 00000051
f90f07fc 900f1590 PDFDoc::displayPage(OutputDev *, int, double, double, int, int, int, int (*)(void *), void *) + 000000c0
f90f0840 900b7517 PrintView::Draw(BRect) + 0000009b
f90f08e8 e82061b5 BPrintJob::RecurseView(BView *, BPoint, BPicture *, BRect) + 00000241
f90f09b0 e82067f5 BPrintJob::DrawView(BView *, BRect, BPoint) + 00000175
f90f0a00 900b7c42 PrintView::Print(void) + 00000666
f90f0c28 900b7fbe printing_thread(void *) + 0000001a
f90f0c3c e806422c thread_start + 00000038
f90f0c5c f90f0c78 #File liblayout.so data + 10819998
printing_thread:

PS. With 0.9.7b1 all good.

RE: Renderer settings

By laplace - Posted on August 6, 2005 - 18:31:35 (#17420)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Alpha 1

BePDF 1.0 uses xpdfs own PDF rasterizer (=Splash). Changes with regard to font rendering to the previous version of BePDF are:
- FreeType 2.0.9 is used for embedded TrueType fonts (instead of FreeType 2.1.x; I can try to use a more recent version of FreeType)
- T1lib is used for Type 1 fonts; BePDF prior to version 1.0 also used FreeType for this kind of fonts; IIRC this had a great impact on rendering quality. It is on my wish list to replace T1lib with FreeType.

Renderer settings

By SD - Posted on August 6, 2005 - 16:49:34 (#17419)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Alpha 1

Actually, old version with more flexible renderer and font settings allowed to tune quality to satisfactory level.
While in new version some PDFs looks not so good as before,
e.g http://beos.spb.ru/fyysik/BePDF1Rend.png
(that is with 200% zoom. With 1:1 it looks really awful)

RE: No save for view layout

By laplace - Posted on August 4, 2005 - 18:58:53 (#17399)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Alpha 1

I have not noticed this before. Thanks for reporting the problem.

About the xpdf "Splash" renderer settings: Sometimes fewer is more :-) The only option would be font anti-aliasing, but since disabling it looks worse I have removed it (If you still want to change it, the next release will allow you to make some changes from the command line. That is broken in this version).

No save for view layout

By SD - Posted on August 4, 2005 - 17:10:53 (#17398)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Alpha 1

I'm forcing new BePDF to show left panel with page numbering each time i open some document.
Previous version showed it permanently when required.

Also wondering where are now rendering engine settings - is it all automatic now, with new xpdf as base?

But at all, this is big step forward.

By tigerdog - Posted on August 4, 2005 - 09:16:32 (#17397)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Alpha 1

this is a major improvement to an indespensible BeOS tool. thank you for your work in maintaining this program.

By edmundf - Posted on July 27, 2005 - 10:19:07 (#17325)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Alpha 1

Now the page is centered as it should be.

Thanks for this update

By Kevin_Field - Posted on July 27, 2005 - 04:11:12 (#17323)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Alpha 1

:):):):):)

Yar, ye be rocking.

Kev

Re: Breaks on this file

By laplace - Posted on July 26, 2005 - 17:35:15 (#17317)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.0.0 Alpha 1

Upgrading to xpdf 3.0 has fixed this problem.

Great BePDF is still being updated!

By nutela - Posted on March 29, 2005 - 14:22:37 (#16232)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.9.7b1

I just love it, what more to say, well the editabilty is wonderfull!

Better then having to download how many megs, 25MB? For Acrobat Reader : (

Breaks on this file

By Kevin_Field - Posted on January 14, 2005 - 20:29:33 (#15411)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.9.6b2

The first one in their series was fine, but:

http://sauron.wlu.ca/physcomp/cp264/2-JavaAdvancedTopics.pdf

http://sauron.wlu.ca/physcomp/cp264/3-AlgoAnalysisIntro.pdf

...both bust.

"Error opening PDF file" or something like that. Works okay on Acrobat 6.0/Win; haven't tried anything else.

Kev



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