Jason Fugal wrote: Can you post the solution as a reply to you original post for posterity's sake (and my curiosity's)?
I ended up with the following lines in my .Xresources file: xpdf.reverseVideo: true xpdf.geometry: 800x600 xpdf*foreground: white xpdf*background: black geometry and reverseVideo are xpdf variables, therefore they get the dot operator. Man pages don't say anything about reverseVideo even needing to have a value set. Man page doesn't tell what any of the possible allowed values are for any of the variables. (arrrrg!) foreground and background variables are standard X resource variables, so I guess that is why they get the astrisc. Man page also says nothing about adding colons. Since my default screen resolution is 800x600, xpdf.geometry: 800x600 causes xpdf to launch in a maximized window. I suspect that setting xpdf.geometry to any value that matches the default screen resolution will cause xpdf to launch in maximized window. I also learned a thing or two about creating a .xpdfrc file in my home dir. Copy /etc/xpdfrc to ~/.xpdfrc and add : initialZoom 2 to set the default zoom level to +2, or you can use another value, possibly those values available through the xpdf user interface Zoom selector. I thought this might be handy for a wider range of users. A .xpdfrc file can also be used to change fonts in xpdf. Thane -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thane Andersen Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uug] xpdf reverseVideo Hi everyone. I'm trying to configure xpdf with some special settings. Tha man page for xpdf says this: -rv Set reverse video mode. This reverses the colors of everything except images. It may not always produce great results for PDF files which do weird things with color. This also causes the paper color to default to black. [X resource: xpdf.reverseVideo] Problem I'm having is that xpdf.reverseVideo when put in my .Xresources file is being ignored. Other settings are being read, such as: xpdf*foreground: white xpdf*background: black (These set the colors for the user interface, and not the document). These work just fine. Does anyone know how to make the xpdf.reverseVideo option to work? to easily see the color scheme I need, do the following from a shell prompt: "xpdf -rv filename.pdf" on some pdf file you may have kicking around. Thank you Thane ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
