On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 01:38:15 +0100, richard Menedetter wrote:
> E> GS.BAT runs Ghostscript to display on the screen. Press RETURN after
> E> each screenful to get the next. You won't get a text prompt
> E> overwriting the display.
> Great thanks ... but -q does not seem to work here.
> I have to enter quit at the end to exit the program.
>
I think the idea is to put -dBATCH (case is significant) at the end
of the command line. That makes it come out automatically - I think....
> And the default display is very small. I can't really read the content.
> Do you know a way, that bigger characters are used ??
> (Maybe display only half a page at once)
>
Yes - that's the one thing that still defeats me. It may be possible
to manipulate the size somehow by selecting a different screen driver.
One of the documentation files (is it USE.TXT?) lists a table of SVGA
codes to use, but I couldn't get anything other than standard VGA to
work. When I have time, I'll have another try and report back to you if
I get anywhere.
There are supposed to be 'front-end' programmes available to drive
the basic Ghostscript for you, but I never found one for DOS. A facility
to pan around the document and zoom in/out would be VERY nice.... In any
case, I think that nobody is bothering to make a version of the latest
Ghostscripts for DOS and it seems like the earlier versions cannot cope
with the latest .PDF formats.
I wonder whether Linux fares any better in this respect than DOS?
All the best,
Ron.
