On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 21:50, Norman Gaywood wrote: > There are many different types of remote displays. We have over 100 of > them. There may be all sorts of options set. As far as I can tell, none of > them perform displaying postscript/pdf files from a remote system. Only > raw gs seems to do any good but then you don't have scaling/paging > and other useful viewing tools. Those displays that are not strictly > XTerminals but are workstations or laptops all display locally with no > problem. It's only remote displaying that is the problem. This probably has to do with the size of each operation - hence the total bandwidth needed. Does anyone know where the font scaling happens or if there are any tricks to make less work for the display? > > > evince, and other postscript/pdf display programs are extremely slow > > > over remote X displays. This is on a 10M/bit switched network. 10M isn't much to work with. Would it be practical to run NX or even VNC on the remote side - or local apps that only need to access the file remotely? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx