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From: plass@higgs.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (Johannes Plass)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
Subject: ANNOUNCE: gv 2.9.4 - PostScript and PDF previewer
Date: 23 Mar 1997 19:39:25 -0600
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany
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#### Announce:
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gv 2.9.4 is now available and may be obtained either from its homepage at
http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/
or via anonymous ftp from
ftp://thep.physik.uni-mainz.de/pub/gv/
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#### Description:
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gv allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents
on an X display by providing a user interface for the ghostscript
interpreter.
Please note that gv is derived from Tim Theisen's ghostview 1.5.
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#### Requirements:
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# System requirements:
gv surely works on
Linux (gcc 2.7.2.1)
OpenVMS AXP (DECC 5.2,DECC 5.0)
I also got reports of happy users on
Solaris
FreeBSD
NetBSD
Digital UNIX
SunOS
HP/UX
Irix
OSF/1
# Software requirements:
gv requires Kaleb Keithley's Xaw3d widget set.
VMS users will find everything needed to install this widget set at
the locations listed above.
For Unix users working on a system not equipped with this widget set
the page http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/Xaw3d.html may
provide some assistance when trying to install it.
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#### Changes:
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==== 2.9.4 (last version was 2.7.6)
# Add another mouse binding in the main window.
A double click with the left mouse button in the left/right half
of the shown page causes the previous/next page to be displayed.
# Add yet another mouse binding in the main window.
A click with the right mouse button pops up a small menu offering
a few standard action.
# Allow gv to either respect or ignore document structuring comments
(DSC) when opening a file. This should be helpful when viewing
documents with faulty structuring comments.
To toggle between these two states a new menu entry has been added to
the 'File' menu.
A keyboard binding to toggle DSC parsing on and off has beem added as
well. By default the key is 'I'.
Alternatively the new command line options '-dsc' and '-nodsc' may be
used.
# Keep the point located in the center of the visible area of the
displayed page centered when changing the magnification or
orientation.
# Add resources 'minimumWidth' and 'minimumHeight' to allow users
to specify a size beyond which gv will never shrink so that all
controls and titles remain accessible when changing the magnification
or the page media or ...
For both resources the default value is 400.
# Merge in a few patches enlarging and correcting the set of allowed
papersizes.
[ thanks to Andreas Schott (schott@rzg.mpg.de) ]
# Add Keyboard binding to toggle antialiasing on and off.
By default the key 'A' is used.
# Add Keyboard binding to toggle the resize behaviour of the main window
between 'Fixed Size' and 'Variable Size'.
By default the key 'Z' is used.
# Update the documentation. The new sections mainly cover resources
and key and mouse bindings.
# Fix a bug that causes gv to crash when the current page media
is 'Bounding Box' and the user disables automatic page media
selection.
# Fix a bug that causes wrong page media selection when changing
from a document with document specific papersizes to one without
document specific papersizes (or vice versa).
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Regards,
Johannes Plass (plass@thep.physik.uni-mainz.de)