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SVG and Postscript

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:53:16 GMT

I'm still looking for lightweight alternatives to work with and display Postscript or SVG files. I've previously compiled some of the information I've found on PDF and Postscript related programs here: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/3702.html As mentioned, programs such as abcm2ps, lcal, pcal and others output to Postscript. So, I wanted to find a lightweight way to view the output. The abcm2ps program can also output to SVG. One thought was to convert Postscript or SVG to PDF and view the files with mupdf. So, far I haven't found a solution I've been happy with.

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PDF and Postscript

Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:58:27 GMT

Some interesting Open Source command line programs output their results in Postscript and/or PDF format. That makes it useful to have lightweight PDF and PostScript viewers that don't require a lot of dependencies to build so you can view their output quickly. It's also nice on Linux systems if they work in framebuffer mode, so you don't have to start an X Windows session just to view results. Cross-platform viewers work on a variety of systems from Linux and Mac to Windows to DOS and even Android. Having tools to edit/modify PDF and PostScript output is also useful.

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