<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >On-screen previewing of printable things.</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.49"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Printing HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Printing Photographs" HREF="photos.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Serial printers under lpd" HREF="serial.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Printing HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="photos.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="serial.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="PREVIEWING" >16. On-screen previewing of printable things.</A ></H1 ><A NAME="AEN2827" ></A ><P > Nearly anything you can print can be viewed on the screen, too. </P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="PREVIEWING-WITH-GHOSTSCRIPT" >16.1. PostScript</A ></H2 ><A NAME="AEN2832" ></A ><A NAME="AEN2835" ></A ><A NAME="AEN2838" ></A ><P > Ghostscript has an X11 driver best used under the management of the PostScript previewer <A HREF="http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/" TARGET="_top" >gv</A >. 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. </P ><DIV CLASS="FIGURE" ><P ><B >Figure 16. Gv</B ></P ><P ><IMG SRC="snapshot-gv.gif"></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="PREVIEWING-TEX-DVI" >16.2. TeX dvi</A ></H2 ><P > TeX DeVice Independent files may be previewed under X11 with <A HREF="http://www.linuxprinting.org/man/xdvi.1.html" TARGET="_top" >xdvi</A >. Modern versions of xdvi call ghostscript to render PostScript specials. </P ><P > A VT100 driver exists as well. It's called <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >dgvt</TT >. <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >Tmview</TT > works with GNU/Linux and svgalib, if that's all you can do. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="PDF-PREVIEWING" >16.3. Adobe PDF</A ></H2 ><A NAME="AEN2855" ></A ><A NAME="AEN2858" ></A ><A NAME="AEN2861" ></A ><P > Adobe's Acrobat Reader is available for GNU/Linux; just download it from the <A HREF="http://www.adobe.com/" TARGET="_top" >Adobe web site</A >. </P ><P > You can also use xpdf, which is free software, and I believe <B CLASS="COMMAND" >gv</B > supports viewing PDF files with gs under X11. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="photos.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="serial.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Printing Photographs</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Serial printers under lpd</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >