pkgsrc/print/ggv2/DESCR

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GGv is the Gnome Postscript and PDF viewer program. The name comes from
GhostView, a non-gnome GNU postscript viewer application on which GGv
is based.
GGv is a frontend for GhostScript, an interpreter of PostScript that is able
to properly render PostScript documents in a display or a printer. GGv serves
as a layer that isolates the user from the cumbersome options and interface of
GhostScript, and, at the same time, gives extra features such as panning and
persistent user settings.
The main features that make me personally like ggv are its antialiasing (use
the preferences dialog to turn it on and reload the document -- your eyes will
pop out of their sockets so be careful) and nice user interface, allowing e.g.
dragging of postscript files into GGv, moving the postscript display by
dragging the mouse in the pager window or the main window. GGv can display
more than one document at the same time. Also, the transparent support for
compressed postscript and pdf are handy.
This is the version of GGv for GNOME 2.