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>16. On-screen previewing of printable things.</A
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>   Nearly anything you can print can be viewed on the screen, too.
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>    Ghostscript has an X11 driver best used under the management of
    the PostScript previewer <A
HREF="http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/"
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>gv</A
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    The latest versions of these programs should be able to view PDF
    files, as well.  Note that gv has replaced the older previewer
    "Ghostview"; the new user interface is mch prettier and featureful
    that ghostview's plain old Athena GUI.
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>    TeX DeVice Independent files may be previewed under X11 with
    <A
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>    A VT100 driver exists as well.  It's called <TT
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    works with GNU/Linux and svgalib, if that's all you can do.
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>    Adobe's Acrobat Reader is available for GNU/Linux; just download it
    from the <A
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>    You can also use xpdf, which is free software, and I believe
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