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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, mikkel meinike wrote:

> I have now installed gs and the viewer gv on my BL3 system but when I
> try to see a ps file I can't do that I get an error messages
> gv alphabet.ps
>
> The xterm window display
> Warning: ... fund while parding '<key>apLineDel:
> GV_Page(page+5)
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset

Did you also install the ghostscript fonts?

> The gv windows Oppens and this massages pups up
> Ghost Script Massages
> unknown device: x11
> Dismiss
>
> So it looks like the problem is in the settings of gs. I found out
> that my ghost script that is from slackware4 as default sent the
> output to CLI svgalib.

Maybe the Slackware 4.0 gs was not compiled to support X11 at all.
I think you can type gs --help for a list of devices that are supported.
Or maybe just gs (nothing following it at all).  You need to choose which 
devices are supported during compilation.

The Slackware 8.1 ghostsript supports X11 but not svgalib and I could not 
compiled the latest version to support svgalib.

> gs alphabet.ps
> from an X11 xterm does: Black screen some fast massages about svgalib
> and something about buss error and than fall back to X11 with
>
> svgalib: allocated virtual console #5
>
> How can I change the settings so it will use X11 and I assume the X11
> fonts, and so that gv can display my ps files? and also I have a very
> low screen 480x600 should I set a special resolution for this screen
> or will that work out automatically with the vga16 server

Check if X11 is supported.  If not, you can use bmv as a viewer of ps 
files, after you install svgalib, but you will need to either compile it 
yourself, or find a version for libc5 (maybe an rpm version, which you 
will need to convert to .tgz version using the rpm2targz script which 
should be in one of the packages, or you can find it I think at my 
website) and you need cpio to use that script.  David Moberg understands 
this better.

Bmv lets you specify the resolution and pan (move around in the document) 
and the newer version lets you also rotate.

Or you can install the SW71 or SW81 glibc (and maybe also elflibs) ad use 
the gs from SW71 or the one I compiled, in X11.  That might be easier and 
more useful so you can then also use precompiled xpdf as a viewer of pdf 
files (with the SW81 glibc).

> /Mikkel
>
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