Linux Unleashed, Third Edition:Ghostscript and Ghostview





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Ghostview X Resources
As with most applications that use X, Ghostview has a set of X resources it can use. The X resources are not the same as those used by Ghostscript. Table 24.3 lists the X resources recognized by Ghostview.

Table 24.3. Ghostview X resources.



Resource Name
Class of Resource
Default Value



showTitle - displays the title
Labels
true

showDate - displays the date
Labels
true

showLocator - displays the locator
Labels
true

autoCenter - centers the page in the
AutoCenter
true

viewport whenever the page size changes



horizontalMargin - how many pixels
Margin
20

should be reserved for horizontal



window decorations



verticalMargin - how many pixels
Margin
44

should be reserved for vertical



window decorations



minimumMagstep - the smallest magstep to display
Magstep
-5

maximumMagstep - the largest magstep to
Magstep
5

display



magstep - the default magstep
Magstep
0

orientation - the default orientation
Orientation
Portrait

page - the initial page to display
Page


pageMedia - the default page media
PageMedia
Letter

forceOrientation -forces the orientation
Force
false

forcePageMedia - forces the page media
Force
false

swapLandscape - swaps the meaning of
SwapLand
false

Landscaple and Seascape
scape


printCommand - the command used for
PrintCommand


printing



printerVariable - the name of the
Printer
PRINTER

printer environment variable
Variable


busyCursor - the cursor shown when
Cursor


drawing to the window



cursor - the cursor shown when idle
Cursor
cross hair

safer - whether to run in safer mode
Safer
true



Summary
In this chapter we’ve looked at the Ghostview and Ghostscript utilities, two very handy related programs for working with PostScript-format files. It is useful to be able to browse through a file quickly using Ghostview instead of having to print it, so Ghostview has become one of the most-used utilities on many UNIX systems (including Linux). From here, take a look at a number of chapters that are related.


To learn about configuring printers under Linux, see Chapter 20, “Printing.”
To learn about programming under Linux, see Part V starting with Chapter 25, “gawk.”
To learn about setting up devices, including printers, see Chapter 33, “Devices.”





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