Re: [Groff] GSView question (groff-PostScript viewer)

[Deri James]

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