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Bug#612223: marked as done (Improve gs man page about previewing)

Your message dated Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:04:45 -0600
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has caused the Debian Bug report #612223,
regarding Improve gs man page about previewing
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Package: gs-esp
Version: 7.07.1-9
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/man/man1/gs-esp.1.gz

We see
NAME
       gs  -  Ghostscript  (PostScript  and  PDF language interpreter and pre-
       viewer)

But then it's not mentioned how to preview documents!
OK, mention it is the default action, etc. And how to page around.

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On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:11:05 +0800 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Why on the gs man page don't you say what the default device is?
> gs -sdisplay doesn't help.

Ghostscript version 10.02.1 does describe the default device -- and it is X11 
viewer, so you do see the output on screen:


       Ghostscript may be built to use many different output devices.  To see 
which devices your executable includes, run "gs -h".

       Unless you specify a particular device, Ghostscript normally opens the 
first one of those and directs output to it.

       If you have installed the ghostscript-x Debian package and are under X, 
the default device is an X11 window (previewer), else ghostscript will use the 
bbox device and print on stdout the dimension of the postscript file.

       So if the first one in the list is the one you want to use, just issue 
the command

            gs myfile.ps

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