On the rare occasions when I need to look at a postscript text file, and don't have TeX intalled, I normally use evince (built with libspectre). While testing this on 7.5, I discovered that .ps files were not displaying. Now that I've had time to google, I found a link from arch pointing to a ghostscript bug. People say this also affects okular, and is also seen in (at least) ubuntu.
The gs fix is apparently: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=patch;h=e64ac4c8 which is rather big. There is also a workaround for those of us using the commandline : LANG=C when invoking evince or any other viewer. Supposedly this is to do with locales using a comma as a decimal separator, but in fact it happens for me in en_GB. I think I'll try that patch in my next build, because this is the sort of thing that annoys me. N.B. 'display' from ImageMagick doesn't show this problem, but it isn't useful unless the postscript file has a background (most don't) because it will put the text on a chequerboard silver-grey background which makes it incredibly difficult to read. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
