km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) (09/18/89)
The biggest problem I have with psview, is that the print is just too
small. A full page of text scaled to sit in a substantial frame is just
too small for me to examine carfully at the distance I sit from the
monitor.
Xtroff, an X11 program with a similar goal solves this by making it
easy to display a portion of the page at a larger size, and jockey the
"paper" up and down inside the window.
Its true that in NeWS you can slide the psview window off the bottom of
the screen and resize the visable top of the page. The same trick won't
work on the bottom, and is not very convenient even for the top.
Has anyone thought of hacking psview to solve this problem?
--
Ken Mandelberg | km@mathcs.emory.edu PREFERRED
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Atlanta, GA 30322 | Phone: (404) 727-7963mh@awds26.eaton.com (Mike Hoegeman) (09/19/89)
In article <4349@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes: >The biggest problem I have with psview, is that the print is just too >small. A full page of text scaled to sit in a substantial frame is just >too small for me to examine carfully at the distance I sit from the >monitor. ...etc... >Its true that in NeWS you can slide the psview window off the bottom of >the screen and resize the visable top of the page. The same trick won't >work on the bottom, and is not very convenient even for the top. I believe there is a version of psview which does this on one on the SEX tape from the sun user group conference which took place in miami. if you cannot get a hold of this tape , check out tumtum.umd.edu -mike
naughton@wind.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) (09/19/89)
In article <4349@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes: >The biggest problem I have with psview, is that the print is just too >small. A full page of text scaled to sit in a substantial frame is just >too small for me to examine carfully at the distance I sit from the >monitor. > >Xtroff, an X11 program with a similar goal solves this by making it >easy to display a portion of the page at a larger size, and jockey the >"paper" up and down inside the window. > >Has anyone thought of hacking psview to solve this problem? >-- >Ken Mandelberg | km@mathcs.emory.edu PREFERRED >Emory University | {decvax,gatech}!emory!km UUCP >Dept of Math and CS | km@emory.bitnet NON-DOMAIN BITNET >Atlanta, GA 30322 | Phone: (404) 727-7963 PageView, the PostScript previewer shipped with OpenWindows (aka X11/NeWS) is a total rework of psview which includes this feature as well as many other enhancements. We are hard at work on OpenWindows 1.1, so you should be able to get 1.0 very soon. -Patrick ______________________________________________________________________ Patrick J. Naughton ARPA: naughton@sun.com Window Systems Group UUCP: ...!sun!naughton Sun Microsystems, Inc. AT&T: (415) 336 - 1080
ajcd@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Angus Duggan) (09/19/89)
Yes, I've not only thought about it, I've done it. The local version of psview has scroll bars, enlarge and reduce (by a fixed factor, but multiple enlargements/reductions are possible), European page sizes specifiable from the command line (by the -a[0-6] switch), and a hack to allow previewing of postscript files produced by ArborText's DVILASER/PS (version 4.0.6) dvi converter. There is also a box facility, which you can use to draw a frame around any part of the picture, and the dimensions and offset of the frame will be displayed in inches, centimetres, or PostScript points (1/72 in). The dvi hack requires an altered prologue for DVILASER/PS, and a simple program (called psmung) to make the output PostScript closer to conforming PostScript (however, ArborText has said that the latest version of DVILASER/PS will produce conforming files). If there is enough interest, I will post diffs to psview, and the other required parts for dvi previewing. I am prepared to mail this stuff out to individuals also, but please be patient, I am very busy just now. Warning: altering psview was the first time I used LiteItems, or tried to do anything much with overlay canvases, so the code is probably pretty grotty. I had one problem with overlay canvases, which was that I couldn't reshape them, and had to create a new one each time they needed reshaping. Is this a known problem, or am I just doing it wrong? Angus Angus Duggan, Department of Computer Science, | (C) AJCD 1989 University of Edinburgh, JCMB, | USENET: ajcd@lfcs.ed.ac.uk The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, | JANET: ajcd@uk.ac.ed.lfcs Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Scotland. | OR: ajcd%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk