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- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.SE (Michael Salmon)
- Subject: Re: Viewing troff under ghostscript
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.082012.4234@ericsson.se>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- References: <1992Dec21.220635.9864@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:20:12 GMT
- Approved: bug-ghostscript@prep.ai.mit.edu
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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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