RasterView is a CUPS, PWG, and Apple raster file viewing application. It basically allows you to look at the raster data produced by any of the standard CUPS RIP filters (cgpdftoraster, imagetoraster, pdftoraster, 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.
RasterView is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.
More information can be found at:
https://www.msweet.org/rasterview
If you plan on (re)compiling it, you'll need FLTK (http://www.fltk.org/) 1.1.x or later and a C++ compiler.
Run the following commands:
./configure
make
The program is called "rasterview" on UNIX/Linux and "RasterView.app" on macOS. Run the program and then open a raster file, or pass the filename on the command-line. You can view multiple files simultaneously.
The "test" subdirectory includes a script for generating raster data using the standard RIP filters. Run the following command for help:
tools/maketestfiles.sh help
RasterView is Copyright © 2002-2021 by Michael R Sweet.
RasterView is provided under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. A
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- Fixed HiDPI support on Linux (Issue #11)
- Fixed macOS 11 (Big Sur) issues (Issue #15)
- Can now view page bitmaps up to 2GB in size (Issue #16)
- Color picker mode now copies the hex RGB color to the clipboard.
- Zoom gestures are now supported on macOS.
- Addressed a few warnings from LGTM.
- Fixed macOS bundle information and now provide fat binaries for Intel and Apple Silicon.
- Fixed a crash bug on macOS.
- Updated the page controls to allow navigation to the previous page and to selected pages.
- Added mode buttons for zoom, pan, and color (to show the current mode).
- Now licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.
- Fixed support for 16-bit per color files.
- Added support for gzip'd raster files (Issue #7)
- Added support for Apple raster files.
- Fixed the dependency on strlcpy.
- Added support for Device-N raster files.
- Colorants can now be changed for Device-N, K, CMY, and CMYK raster files.
- Attributes for PWG Raster files are now reported using the PWG 5102.4 naming and contents.
- Added support for PWG Raster files (requires CUPS 1.5 or higher)
- Added range checks to the page reader so that pages larger than 64MB or with invalid dimensions will not cause the program to crash.
- Changed the default scheme to gtk+, which is available in FLTK 1.1.8 and higher.
- Added a --enable-static configure option to use the static CUPS libraries.
- First public release.