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>		GGv is the Gnome PostScript viewer program. 
		The name comes from GhostView, a non-gnome 
		GNU postscript viewer application on which GGv
		is based.
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>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.
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>		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.
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