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From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Pageview [was Re: Looking for PostScript Previewer in X Windows]
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.204024.24170@sq.sq.com>
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 91 20:40:24 GMT
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datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes:

[I'm posting this because the two problems are so common....]

[1]
> Pageview has the odd quality
> that there's no "quit" available from its menus -- I guess Sun expects one to
> run olwm and use the features thereof to kill it off.

That's correct -- it follows the OPEN LOOK specs.
If you don't run olwm (or olvwm) you can use xkill...

[2]
> I don't know whether
> to blame pageview or the code, but I've got PS files that pageview displays
> upside down and mirrored.

If PostScript code contains "initgraphics" it will come out like this.
Comment out the initgraphics (or delete it) and everything should be fine.

Although pageview is *extraordinarily* slow on my 4/110, since I have no
hardware floating-point, the editor (textsw, same as mailtool etc.) and
log make it useful enough that I do use it fairly often.


Lee


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