Sam Halliday declaimed: > > I can use ghostview just fine in fvwm, so I am pretty sure it's a > > blackbox issue. I am using ghostview 1.5 and ghostscript 7. > i have gv 3.5.8 and GNU Ghostscript 7.05, no problems... maybe your > ghostview is just _really_ old > My understanding is that 'ghostview' has been frozen at 1.5 for some time and the 'gv' is peferred because it's actively maintained.
debian$ apt-cache show gv Package: gv Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 548 Maintainer: Christian Kesselheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1:3.5.8-26 Replaces: gv-2d, gv-3d, fvwm-common (<< 2.0.46-BETA-2) Provides: postscript-viewer, pdf-viewer Depends: gs, libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), xaw3dg (>= 1.5-6), xlibs (>> 4.1.0) Conflicts: gv-2d, gv-3d Filename: pool/main/g/gv/gv_3.5.8-26_i386.deb Size: 224714 MD5sum: 0a7d08737441944fea050dd9676b4efb Description: A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets `gv' is a comfortable viewer of PostScript and PDF files for the X Window System. . It uses the `ghostscript' PostScript(tm) interpreter and is based on the classic X front-end for `gs', `ghostview'. It is more comfortable and more powerful than `ghostview'. Task: tex HTH, PM -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
