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Re: why these files can't be displayed properly by gv



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.

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.
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