Re: (solved)Re: why these files can't be displayed properly by gv
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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.
Please don't top post on this list.
It seems to me that reverting to using windows to view Unix documents is
a poor way. There are many pdf viewers in Debian, and if you have to,
you can even get Adobe Reader for Linux. If you're serious about
running Debian, then do yourself a favor and dump (or at least forget
about) Windows. You will never learn Unix if you don't use it.
Figuring out how to do things is one of the best ways to learn. Not
reading a dry book.
Although, books and other documentation are quite valuable nothing beats
"getting your hands dirty".
>
> --- 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.
>>
>> 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.
Joe
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