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From: naughton@wind.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton)
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Subject: Re: BLowing up Psview
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Date: 19 Sep 89 05:37:28 GMT
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In article <4349@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
>The biggest problem I have with psview, is that the print is just too
>small. A full page of text scaled to sit in a substantial frame is just
>too small for me to examine carfully at the distance I sit from the
>monitor.
>
>Xtroff, an X11 program with a similar goal solves this by making it
>easy to display a portion of the page at a larger size, and jockey the
>"paper" up and down inside the window.
>
>Has anyone thought of hacking psview to solve this problem?
>-- 
>Ken Mandelberg      | km@mathcs.emory.edu          PREFERRED
>Emory University    | {decvax,gatech}!emory!km     UUCP 
>Dept of Math and CS | km@emory.bitnet              NON-DOMAIN BITNET  
>Atlanta, GA 30322   | Phone: (404) 727-7963


PageView, the PostScript previewer shipped with OpenWindows (aka X11/NeWS)
is a total rework of psview which includes this feature as well as many
other enhancements.  We are hard at work on OpenWindows 1.1, so you should
be able to get 1.0 very soon.

-Patrick
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