RasterView - Apple/CUPS/PWG Raster File Viewer

RasterView is an Apple, CUPS, and PWG 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

Requirements

If you plan on (re)compiling it, you'll need FLTK (http://www.fltk.org/) 1.1.x or later and a C++ compiler.

How to Compile

Run the following commands:

./configure
make

How to Use

The program is called "rasterview" on UNIX/Linux, "RasterView.app" on macOS, and "RasterView.exe" on Windows. 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:

test/maketestfiles.sh help

Legal Stuff

RasterView is Copyright © 2002-2023 by Michael R Sweet.

RasterView is provided under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. A copy of this license can be found in the file LICENSE. Additional legal information is provided in the file NOTICE.

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.