On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 08:09 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Serena Cantor wrote: > > Thank you for your efforts! > > I convert it to pdf with ps2pdf, then open it with Adobe Reader of Windows, it's fine. > > --- Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 15:10 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > >>> I have sarge and gv, I find tutorial below is useful: > >>> > >>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/unix-tutorials/courses/unix.ps > >>> > >>> however, it can't be displayed properly by gv > >>> > >>> what's the problem? > >> It doesn't display properly in a few viewers I used to display it. It > >> might be that it is in "booklet" format. Which means two facing pages > >> per landscape page. > >> > >> I did: > >> wget http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/unix-tutorials/courses/unix.ps > >> ps2pdf unix.ps > >> > >> Opened it in doc-viewer (evince) and it opened just fine. > >> > >> Again, multiple viewers I used, 6 in total that are supposed to be able > >> to look at .ps files easily, not one could properly render it past the > >> first 3 characters. In the middle of the lefthand side, "An I" is all I > >> got to see. > > A shame that one has to keep 6 viewers on their system. You'd think one > or two would be enough. No, I don't keep 6 viewers on my system. I have the luxury of running a Linux distribution called "Debian". It allows me to install use and remove packages very easily. I really believe it is the "shizzle for my izzle" as I can do nearly anything I want without having to compile or convert these packages. I don't have to worry about dependency issues or anything of the like. That said, I can also remove the packages just as easily. Which I did. > >> My guess, the landscape format is killing it. Plus the file is 14 years > >> old, back then postscript was slightly different than it is now. > > You're probably right. I hope so. Of course, you really need to switch to Debian Linux. (-; -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0
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