<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >On-screen previewing of printable things.</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><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 SUMMARY="Header navigation 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" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="serial.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="previewing" ></A >16. On-screen previewing of printable things.</H1 ><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" ></A >16.1. PostScript</H2 ><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 much prettier and featureful that ghostview's plain old Athena GUI.</P ><DIV CLASS="figure" ><A NAME="AEN2205" ></A ><P ><B >Figure 17. Gv</B ></P ><DIV CLASS="mediaobject" ><P ><IMG SRC="images/snapshot-gv.png"></P ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="previewing-tex-dvi" ></A >16.2. TeX dvi</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" ></A >16.3. Adobe PDF</H2 ><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 SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="photos.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="serial.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >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 >