gv, a PostScript and PDF previewer

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gv 3.5.8

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Contents

Description

Screenshots

Changes

Requirements

More Information

Availability

Copyright

Authors

Suggestions and bug reports

Acknowledgements

 

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Description

gv allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter.

The current version is 3.5.8 (June 21 1997)

Please note that gv is derived from Tim Theisen's ghostview 1.5.

 

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Screenshots

• The main window
• The main window if gv is invoked via "gv -style gv_spartan.dat"
• The file-selection window
• The setup options window
• The file selection options window
• The gv options window
• The ghostscript options window

 

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Requirements

• System requirements
  
  gv surely works on
  • Linux
  • OpenVMS AXP (DECC 5.2,DECC 5.0)
  I also got reports of happy users on
  • Solaris
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • Digital UNIX
  • SunOS
  • HP/UX
  • Irix
  • OSF/1
  • OS/2
  • AIX
  If you find that gv is also useful on a system not listed above please send me a message so that the above list can be kept up to date.

   

• Software requirements
  
  gv requires Kaleb Keithley's Xaw3d widget set.

   

  • VMS users will find everything required to install this widget set in the section 'Availability' below.

     

  • Unix users working on a system not equipped with this widget set may want to visit the section 'Availability and installation of Xaw3d' which may provide some assistance when trying to install Xaw3d.

    A few words about Xaw3d, especially adressed to Linux users: There is only one Xaw3d, the one found on ftp.x.org and its mirrors. However, there are some hacked versions out there on the net and some of their authors don't even bother to distribute their version under a different name. Since Xaw3d also intends to serve as a basis for application specific custom widgets to be created by subclassing existing widgets (one of the main strengths of the Xt Toolkit) these hacked libraries are likely to break applications using this feature (like gv).

    To make this long story short: when using gv with some hacked Xaw3d (including XawXpm, nextXaw or whatever they are called) you (attention here) are on your own. It might work but it might also not.

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More information

Further information about gv concerning command line options, resources and keyboard and mouse bindings is available

• either in html
• or in postscript

..

http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/
http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/#description


gv 3.5, June 1997: Options
http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/gv_doc/gv-3.html