(solved)Re: why these files can't be displayed properly by gv
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.
>
> 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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