I installed gv and it works great. Thank you for the info. I can stop bitching now and get down to some typesetting... =]
TimH On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:49:01 -0700 paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sam Halliday declaimed: > > > I can use ghostview just fine in fvwm, so I am pretty sure it's a > > > blackbox issue. I am using ghostview 1.5 and ghostscript 7. > > i have gv 3.5.8 and GNU Ghostscript 7.05, no problems... maybe your > > ghostview is just _really_ old > > > My understanding is that 'ghostview' has been frozen at 1.5 for some > time and the 'gv' is peferred because it's actively maintained. > > debian$ apt-cache show gv > Package: gv > Priority: optional > Section: text > Installed-Size: 548 > Maintainer: Christian Kesselheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: i386 > Version: 1:3.5.8-26 > Replaces: gv-2d, gv-3d, fvwm-common (<< 2.0.46-BETA-2) > Provides: postscript-viewer, pdf-viewer > Depends: gs, libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), xaw3dg (>= 1.5-6), xlibs (>> 4.1.0) > Conflicts: gv-2d, gv-3d > Filename: pool/main/g/gv/gv_3.5.8-26_i386.deb > Size: 224714 > MD5sum: 0a7d08737441944fea050dd9676b4efb > Description: A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets > `gv' is a comfortable viewer of PostScript and PDF files for the X > Window System. > . > It uses the `ghostscript' PostScript(tm) interpreter and is based > on the classic X front-end for `gs', `ghostview'. It is more > comfortable and more powerful than `ghostview'. > Task: tex > > HTH, PM > -- > Paul Mackinney > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
