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

On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, mikkel meinike wrote:

> On 11/3/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, mikkel meinike wrote:
>
> Thanks Sindi
>
> first I have missed up something with all thise small ps, gs, gv. I
> have bin doing *ps filname.ps' instat of 'gs filname.ps' whene I did
> 'gs filname.ps' I got a more usfull idear of what was going on. It
> seems that the defoult output of this SW4 version of gs is svgalib and
> that this will not work. I will try with gv from SW4 don't you thing
> that would be the solution if I will have an X!! output and first try
> to stay whit the older libs (lib5 and frinds)?

Try running gs as
gs -sDEVICE=x11 filename.ps
to use x11 instead of the default svgalib.

You can also change the default by adding a line to /etc/profile to make 
gs always use X11.

But first you need to check whether X11 is even supported by this gs. 
Type gs --help for a list of supported devices.

The package contains a lot of documentation which explains these things, 
but it took me a long time to understand this.

You can also use gs to print to many different printers, with a 
complicated filter setup, or command line.  There are some postings about 
this from 2-3 years ago.

Sindi
> /Mikkel