What is RasterView?

RasterView is a CUPS raster file viewer for CUPS 1.2 and higher. It basically allows you to look at the raster data produced by any of the standard CUPS RIP filters (cgimagetoraster, cgpdftoraster, imagetoraster, and pstoraster) and is normally used to either test those filters or look at the data that is being sent to your raster printer driver.

Downloading RasterView

The current release is v1.2.1. In addition to the source code, you can download precompiled binaries that will work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Intel only) and Mac OS X 10.4.x (Universal):

• RasterView v1.2.1 Source Code (.tar.gz, 696k)
• RasterView v1.2.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (.rpm, 253k)
• RasterView v1.2.1 for Mac OS X 10.4.x (.dmg, 989k)

The Basics

RasterView starts in zoom in mode (Z, which allows you to click on the page or drag a zoom box on the page to zoom in. You can also use pan mode (P) to drag/pan the page in the window, zoom out mode (SHIFT + Z) to click on the page to zoom out, or color viewing mode (C) to click or drag the mouse and view the raw colors on the page.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• 0: Zoom to fit
• 1: Zoom 100%
• 2: Zoom 200%
• 3: Zoom 300%
• 4: Zoom 400%
• -: Zoom out
• =: Zoom in
• C: Click or drag mouse to view colors
• P: Drag mouse to pan
• Z: Click or drag mouse to zoom in
• SHIFT + Z: Click to zoom out
• CTRL/CMD + A: Show/hide the page attributes
• CTRL/CMD + O: Open a raster file
• CTRL/CMD + Q: Quit RasterView
• CTRL/CMD + R: Reload the raster file

Legal Stuff

RasterView is Copyright 2002-2006 by Michael R Sweet.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.