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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > I know, that is why I use zgv instead. Or links2 graphical as
> > a viewer xli is small.
>
> I've used zgv/svgalib, and they are limited and buggy in the
> extreme (and quite large in total). There are many X viewers out
> there and I have to run X anyway, because I need an integrated
> windowing environment with graphical capability and there is no
> way to view pdf files without X or ghostscript, and the latter is
> an opaquely-complex monster.

Steven compiled a links2 that runs under X and can be used as an image 
viewer.

You can convert pdf files to  text and/or images with pdfimages, 
pdftotext, and pdftopbm (part of netpbm).  Then view with zgv or links2 
(svga-based) without X.  For BL3 I added a very minimal set of gs fonts so 
that the last two of these would work, and posted the package.  xpdf 3.0 
requires a later libX11 than BL3 has, and older version do not do pdf 1.5, 
which people started sending me a few years ago.  The other three smaller 
programs come as part of the package.  I packaged them separately.

> > > ../images/xli monica13.jpg
> > >
> > > monica13.jpg is a 400x533 JPEG image, color space YCbCr, 3
> > > comps., Huffman coding Converting true color image to RGB
> > > image with 16 colors...done Building XImage...done Image
> > > Gamma now 1.025496 xx
> >
> > Can you set X to truecolor, maybe with lower resolution?
>
> Can I? Would that be in /etc/Xconfig? What syntax?

24-bit color (16M colors).  Xsetup asks about color depth, choose the 
highest possible.  Or edit /etc/Xconfig first line.  Or start Xvesa CLI 
specifying resolution and color depth (see the archives for details).

> The strings "True", "TRUE", or "true" don't show up in the
> Xvesa manpage.
>
> > 4-bit color the default for XLI?
>
> I don't know.

Look in Xsetup - it may be set to 4-bit color.
> Lee

Sindi