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Started by Peter Jaspers-Fayer
Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:38
a2ps & xpsview (xpsview & landscape)
Author: Peter Jaspers-Fayer
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:38
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:38
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We love a2ps. It produces nice postscript from plain ascii or man pages.
With a duplex-capable printer, you can get 4 page images on one sheet of
paper. Sometimes, I want to preview the output on my SGI screen, and so I
use xpsview. Now the xpsview man page mentions "-la", but all that does
is change the size of the window. Short of editing the postscript, is
there a way to get xpsview to rotate the image so I don't get this
terrible crick in my neck?
--
/PJ "You can't grep dead trees" pjf@osiris.cs.uoguelph.ca
pjf@vm.uoguelph.ca
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Re: a2ps & xpsview (xpsview & landscape)
Author: John C. Schultz
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 17:49
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 17:49
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You might also take a look at ghostview - a GNU postscript previewer. Provies portrait, landscape and zooming functions. available at many ftp sites. -- John C. Schultz +1 (612) 733-4047 schultz@halley.serc.3m.com How to include the taste of Glendronach in a multi-media system?
Re: a2ps & xpsview (xpsview & landscape)
Author: Nathan Otto Siemers
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 04:13
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 04:13
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>>>>> On Fri, 1 Jan 93 17:49:17 GMT, schultz@halley.est.3m.com (John C. Schultz) said: John> You might also take a look at ghostview - a GNU postscript previewer. John> Provies portrait, landscape and zooming functions. available at many John> ftp sites. Including binaries at sgi.com -- -- / | / /__| / /---/ /__| / | / nathan@chemres.tn.cornell.edu
Re: a2ps & xpsview (xpsview & landscape)
Author: Robin Brown
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 07:12
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 07:12
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schultz@halley.est.3m.com (John C. Schultz) writes: >You might also take a look at ghostview - a GNU postscript previewer. >Provies portrait, landscape and zooming functions. available at many >ftp sites. There is a version on sgi.com that can be installed using SG's inst program. All you have to do is run inst, no configuration, building or anything. It's a fairly recent version and I havn't had any problems yet. Robin -- Robin Brown, System Administrator - Unix Systems and CAD/CAM/CAE Computer Systems Group, BHP Research - Melbourne Laboratories. Snail:245 Wellington Road Mulgrave VIC 3170 AUSTRALIA. Tel:+61-3-560-7066, Fax:+61-3-561-6709, net:robin@resmel.bhp.com.au
Re: a2ps & xpsview (Really: ghostview/ghostscript on sgi.com)
Author: Robert Keller
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 20:15
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 20:15
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robin@resmel.bhp.com.au (Robin Brown) writes:
>schultz@halley.est.3m.com (John C. Schultz) writes:
>
>>You might also take a look at ghostview - a GNU postscript previewer.
>
>There is a version on sgi.com that can be installed using SG's inst program.
>All you have to do is run inst, no configuration, building or anything.
Following below, is my "Free PostScript previewer!" blurb.
> It's
>a fairly recent version and I havn't had any problems yet.
Yes, It is completely up to date, as far as I'm aware,
Ghostview 1.4.1
Ghostscript 2.5.2
...robert
Preview PostScript without DPS!
I've placed inst'able images of the Ghostview/Ghostscript PostScript
previewer on sgi.sgi.com (192.48.153.1) in ~ftp/sgi/ghost. These
images are built from ***Ghostview 1.4.1/Ghostscript 2.5.2*** and should
work on any IRIX 4.0 based SGI system. These programs should also
be able to render onto any X display (even X terminals).
I made no changes to the authors' original source code, I've simply
compiled it and made IRIX installable (inst'able) images from the
result. The source code to both Ghostview and Ghostscript is included
as part of the images.
Just to be explicit; The authors do not work for SGI.
Both Ghostscript and Ghostview and are free software and are being
redistributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation.
A portion of the README from the ~ftp/sgi/ghost directory follows below.
...robert
This software is provided without support and without any obligation
on the part of Silicon Graphics, Inc. to assist in its use,
correction, modification or enhancement. There is no guarantee
that this software will be included in future software releases.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND
INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF DESIGN, MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE OR
TRADE PRACTICE.
In no event will Silicon Graphics, Inc. be liable for any lost
revenue or profits or other special, indirect and consequential
damages, even if Silicon Graphics, Inc. has been advised of the
possibility of such damages.
Contents:
ghost.tar
A tar archive containing the necessary images to install
executable copies of ghostscript and ghostview on an SGI
workstation running IRIX 4.0+.
Description:
Ghostscript and Ghostview together provide a simple X based means
for previewing PostScript documents.
Instructions:
Copy ghost.tar to /usr/tmp.
% su
# mkdir /usr/local/dist
# cd /usr/local/dist
# tar xvf /usr/tmp/ghost.tar
# inst -f /usr/local/dist
Then follow the instructions from inst. To find out more about
inst, consult the inst(1M) man page.
The inst images of "ghost" in /usr/local/dist can be used by
networked machines to install from. On the remote machine:
% su
# inst -f guest@"machine with images":/usr/local/dist
Then follow the instructions from inst again.
...robert keller (rck@sgi.com)
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