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| asdfff | does anyone know why gv would be unable to go back to previous page? | 09:57.14 |
| tor8 | asdfff: postscript files are computer programs that generate pages. and they only do it forwards, so going back to a previous page is not possible in the general case. | 10:04.10 |
| kens | Probably because your PostScript program is not DSC compliant | 10:04.18 |
| | tor8 gsview and other applications can go backwrds too, providing the PostScript is DSC | 10:04.41 |
| tor8 | but if they have so called DSC comments, then gv can rearrange the program so as to be able to load any page | 10:04.46 |
| asdfff | lol thanks i'm more confused than where i started, but ok i'm going to try mupdf again i just got it to build after realizing HAVE_GLFW := yes gets set in Makethird file | 10:07.41 |
| kens | So you're talking about a PDF file, not a PostScript file ? | 10:08.46 |
| asdfff | yes pdf, sorry | 10:08.53 |
| kens | I didn't think gv handled PDF | 10:08.58 |
| | Well, gv isn't anything to do with us, so, no idea, no, sorry | 10:09.41 |
| tor8 | asdfff: are you having trouble building mupdf-gl? | 10:09.53 |
| asdfff | tor8: i dont' have mesa installed, or any othre gl libs | 10:10.12 |
| tor8 | I haven't used gv since 2004 or so... | 10:10.21 |
| chrisl | gv is a pretty dumb application, but it should be able to navigate forward and back through a PDF - it certainly does for me | 10:10.34 |
| asdfff | yeah it's painful to look at, i had to move away form xpdf due to MS fonts not working right | 10:10.42 |
| tor8 | I rather liked gv back in the day | 10:10.50 |
| chrisl | It's just clunky due to the toolkit it uses. It is fast, because it's simple | 10:11.42 |
| tor8 | asdfff: hm, not installed or not able to install? | 10:12.23 |
| | asdfff: mupdf-gl is quite happy with software gl implementations (though I've found myself having to hack glfw to allow such visuals) | 10:12.52 |
| | mesa-common-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, libxrandr-dev, libxinerama-dev are the packages you need to install (they're listed in the README) | 10:13.38 |
| | or run 'make HAVE_GLFW=no' | 10:13.58 |
| asdfff | tor8: not installed, it's a bit much for me | 10:14.40 |
| | you have to sed Makethird file too or else it will have a missing header | 10:15.00 |
| tor8 | asdfff: really? | 10:15.21 |
| asdfff | hold on i'll confirm in a few mins | 10:15.44 |
| | i tried this a few hours ago | 10:15.49 |
| | yep, thirdparty/glfw/include/GLFW/glfw.h can't find GL/gl.h, i think building build/release/platform/gl | 10:20.47 |
| tor8 | it should not build any of those if HAVE_GLFW=no is set | 10:23.35 |
| asdfff | do you have HAVE_GLFW := yes on line 695 of Makethird file? | 10:24.51 |
| tor8 | asdfff: if you don't want to build mupdf-gl you need to build with 'make HAVE_GLFW=no' | 10:25.23 |
| asdfff | i might not have an up to date tarball | 10:25.28 |
| tor8 | to force it to skip the glfw-based viewer | 10:25.47 |
| asdfff | hurrrayy it works! and is *much* faster than gv | 10:34.23 |
| | but i 100% needed to sed Makethird file mupdf-1.10a-source.tar.gz | 10:34.51 |
| tor8 | asdfff: for the HAVE_GLFW stuff? | 10:35.13 |
| | setting HAVE_GLFW on the make command line overrides any setting in the makefiles themselves | 10:35.36 |
| asdfff | try moving your gl directory so the files are not found | 10:36.15 |
| | it may not get built but it's a compiler error | 10:36.25 |
| | i had to do sed -i 's|HAVE_GLFW.*=.*|HAVE_GLFW=no|' Makethird | 10:37.07 |
| | i'm so happy i've been trying to read this pdf all frickin day, thank you guys so much for making the last sane pdf viewer in existence | 10:40.09 |
| tor8 | with 'make HAVE_GLFW=no' none of the files in platform/gl nor in thirdparty/glfw are compiled | 10:43.01 |
| | asdfff: if you can get mupdf-gl to build, it's even better... same minimal UI but it's got proper search and a table of content outline thingy | 10:45.36 |
| asdfff | tor8: thanks, i'll keep that in mind when/if i get around to installing GL. Thing is, i noticed some sketchiness with my web browser trying to dlopen glx when i log in to certain websites (i really wish i was making all of this up) | 10:49.27 |
| | so yeah i'm not too enthusiastic about opengl anymore | 10:49.42 |
| | er no wait it was a crash from missing glx | 10:50.07 |
| | anyway thanks again i need to get to work i lost a whole day on this :\ | 10:50.38 |
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