On Monday 29 September 2008 20:23:02 Clarke Echols wrote: > I finally bit the bullet and got rid of my Windows 98 SE operating > system, replaced the drive with a RAID mirror pair of 500 Gbyte > drives, added 2 Gbytes of memory, and installed Ubuntu Linux. > > I feel like the outcast who came out of the cold dark winter into > the summer sunshine. :-) > > On my old setup, I was using groff running in a bash shell as part > of the cygwin package, and got the shareware PostScript viewer > "GSView" which I really like for several reasons. > > However, when I loaded Ubuntu, the closest I could get is the > freeware KDE product "KGhostView" which displays just fine, but > leaves three problems: > > 1. Every time I reload the PS file, it resets to page 1 > instead of automatically detecting the file being changed > and reloading automatically (I *really* like that feature). > > 2. It doesn't display the page number in the lower border of > the program window ("Page n of x"). > > 3. The nifty counter in the bottom border that shows the x,y > coordinates of the cursor on the PostScript page is missing > and I need that feature so I can check dimensions and > locations when doing page design and layout work (saves > printing a lot of paper). > > In searching on GSView, I get some garbage web sites that claim to > "crack" the program, but I haven't encountered a definitive > indication of whether GSView is available for Ubuntu. Ubuntu's > Add/Remove software function doesn't know about it, and it's always > nice to be able to use that function because it is so effortless and > clean, in comparison with dowloading product packages and installing > them manually. > > Anyone on the list using GSView on Linux? > > If that isn't available, I'll have to fire up my Windows XP > machine (YUK!) and get GSView installed on it... > > Thanks, > > Clarke
Have you tried 'gv'? It has feature 3. Or 'kpdf' ('okular' on KDE 4) which will display postscript as well and has features 1&2. Cheers Deri