Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 16:04:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: previewer Message-ID: <19971022160426.55428@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199710220456.VAA08011@athena.tera.com>; from Gary Kline on Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 09:56:23PM -0700 References: <19971022093440.10538@lemis.com> <199710220456.VAA08011@athena.tera.com>
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On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 09:56:23PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > According to Greg Lehey: >> On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 01:10:52PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: >>> >>> > [[ ... ]] > >> >> Well, it would have helped if you had said what you want to preview. >> If it's PostScript, you can use Ghostview, which I do all the time. >> If it's something else, I can't guess what. Come on, why don't you >> tell us? >> > > Well, if you'll re-read my first paragraph > perhaps it will become clear that I was > trying to arrange addresses in large font type > on a landscape-mode sheet of paper. Yes, I understood that. But I was assuming you weren't cutting them out and gluing them on to the paper. You didn't (and still don't say) what tools you were using. >>> The other day when my wife asked me to make up a mailing >>> sheet (with a large, bold font) it took me 4 or 5 tries >>> to get it right. I used enscript to get the bold font >>> in landscape mode. >> > Because I didn't understand the exact relationship > of spaces and characters in the kerned typeface; > so the cost was several guesses until the > printout was correct. Yes, that's normal enough. You really *do* need a previewr. > I figured that some combination of enscript (or > a2ps) output filtered thru ghostscript or > ghostview might work. But there wasn't time > for any experimentation. OK, but I still don't understand what you're using. a2ps takes ASCII input, which doesn't have various font sizes. > This afternoon, Julian Elischer pointed out > that ghostscript was the solution, but after > some testing I realized that ghostview might > be the better viewer. ghostview allows -landscape > views. Ghostview is definitely preferable, though it's really a front end to ghostscript. > It's not obvious nor trivial (push-button) to > determine how create a previewer. It would be > fairly trivial to create a Bourne | perl script > to handle most cases. A better solution would be > a tk/tcl program. > > 'Nuff?? Not really. I still don't understand what you're doing. ghostview is a (pre)viewer, so you don't need any more. Or are you saying you want to create a view at a certain point in a script? Sorry, I'm trying to help, but I still don't understand what you're trying to do. Greg
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