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Re: Viewing troff under ghostscript

#510
From: Michael Salmon
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:20
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In article <1992Dec21.220635.9864@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
ronis@onsager.ai.mit.EDU (David Ronis) writes:
|> I'm trying to use ghostscript (version 2.5.2) to view the output of
|> Chris Lewis' troff->ps program on a PC runing DV/X.   
|> Ghostscript puts the entire 8.5 X 11''
|> page on the screen at once, which results in extremely small letters.
|> 
|> I tried playing with the geometry settings, but all that does is to 
|> make the window size change, with no effect on the scale.
|> 
|> I also tried to change the scale manuall; i.e., I cut down the
|> page length in my troff code to 5.5i and input the following at the
|> gs prompt:
|> 
|> 1 2 scale
|> (psfilename) run
|> 
|> This works correctly for the first page, but reverts to the preceding
|> behavior thereafter (although now I get 2 miniature troff pages per
|> screen).  
|> 
|> Is this a bug?  If not, how do I get the scale to "stick" for the entire
|> ps file?  Finally, is someone working on scrolling capablility like found
|> in xtroff, suntroff, or like pageview?  This clearly is the way to go.

You could try using ghostview. I believe it sataifies all of your
requests.

-- 

Michael Salmon

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