Hi all, Ummm ... no one seems to have an answer as to how to change those `frantic' numbers....
Bill Bennett wrote: > When I go into GhostView to look at an .eps/.ps file, > there's two numbers that go frantic in the top LH corner > that go frantic when I move the cursor. > I assume they are co-ordinates and are measured in either > pixels/points. They are Postscript units which is the natural unit of measurement in the Postscript language. There are 72 Postscript units to the inch and the coordinate system for those starts at the bottom left hand corner. > Is there any way to change them to millimetres? They'd be > a better help this way. There does not seem to be a way. There are lots of files where you can fidgit with things in gv: See in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/gv for files: gv_class.ad gv_system.ad gv_user.ad and you can set resources for gv to use. No where though did I see how to change what is displayed there in the coordinate box. If you have the gv source though it would be easy to take those Postscript units and /72 to get inches and x 25.4 to get mm Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Lake Active caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
