The following is more of a "curious observation" than a request for help. I plan to make big changes on the machine where this problem occurs, but for now it is "interesting".
The "gv" (ghostview) program displays postscript pages on the desktop ... except in this case the displayed postscript image is COMPRESSED HORIZONTALLY BY A FACTOR OF APPROXIMATELY 3. gv works normally when displayed remotely on another machine connected by an SSH session. The gv (version 3.7.4) misbehavior is on an "old" Scientific Linux 7.3 LTS system, with two 5x4 screens rotated +90/-90 degrees with xrandr. If I turn off xrandr and un-rotate my screens, gv displays normally. That system will eventually be migrated to Mate-Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (same displays and xrandr arrangement, but with gv version 9.50) after I migrate 20 years of redhat-family custom software and my aging Redhat- trained brain. Since the migration often requires reading postscript documentation on the old system (on the right-side desktop screen, tales of KVM complications omitted), I will convert them to pdf, or print them out, before viewing. Anyway, if there is a quick fix, it might save me some conversion efforts (mostly mental) and a tree or two. For now, back to distro migration ... Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
