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Re: Ghostscript & Ghostview as IDL Manual Browser [message #1509]

Thu, 02 December 1993 10:49

ryba
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In article <2dl4fjINNifd@maz4.sma.ch>, oet@sma.ch (Thomas Oettli) writes:
|> The ps manual files distributed on the IDL 3.5 CD-Rom are created by
|> Framemaker. The current Framemaker version produces postscript files
|> without the standard '%!PS-Adobe-' header. Ghostview has limited
|> handling capabilites of non-standard postscript files. Backward paging,
|> skipping to any page or marking pages are not possible. We applied
|> the short script below to insert the required header in the manual
|> files. This way Ghostview & Ghostscript
|> can be used as manual browser without any restrictions.

I believe there is a more extensive version of this in the "psutils"
package on most freeware archive sites.

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ryba@ll.mit.edu | too old to be optimistic.
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