ghostview
Graphical User Interface to ghostscript
- Contributed by
- Tom Kelly (version 1.5)
- Larry Philps (version 1.2)
- Obtained from
- ftp.uu.net:/packages/gnu
- Restrictions
- GNU Copyleft
- Description
-
This program is a graphical front end to the ghostscript
Postscript previewer. It displays one page at a time of
a postscript document and allow you to jump around the
document to random pages, resize the window, rotate the
image, extract random pages from the document and either
save them in a new file or print them.
It uses the athena widgets, and is compiled with the X
and C shared libraries.
- Productivity
- This program can save oodles of paper. A great way to
preview exactly what will show up on the paper before
you actually print it.
- Safety
- Half the world uses it, somebody would've complained by now.
- Work Planned
- None
- Documentation
- manual page.
- Verification
- Take any troff input document, and use the -s option to sqts,
this will cause the postscript representation of the document
to be sent to standard output instead of to the printer.
Save this in a file, then run "ghostview filename", eg.
$ sqts -mm -s doc.mm > doc.ps
$ ghostview doc.ps
How to get the source
To get a copy of the source sent to your Mosaic client in tar
format
click here.
Note that all this source is configured to be installed under
/usr/local/contrib.
To build it for a different location, compile with
make HCRDESTDIR=directory.
Note: this works better with the X11R4 Athena widgets than with
the X11R5 Athena widgets.