>>read the manual
>You fire up GSView. It works, but unfortunately the print is so big
>that you can't see an entire line without scrolling left and right.
>Your blood pressure goes up.
>>examine gsview
>GSView is a nice program written by GNU folks. It lets you view
>PostScript files without printing them. Looking closer, you notice a
>vertical row of buttons along the left border of the window.
>>examine buttons
>One of the buttons has an intricate engraving depicting a lens with
>plus sign. You remember how you used to have a magnifying glass just
>like this when you were a child--you used to show a "big eye" to your
>friends by putting the glass in front of your eyes. As the
>reminiscences pass, you notice a button next to it bearing a picture
>of a lens with a minus sign. You wonder what a lens that diminishes
>instead of magnifying could be useful for.
I write:
>push lens button
You can't see any lens button here.
>examine gsview
You see a status line at the top of the screen. The status line has
buttons. One of the buttons reads "Media".
>push media
A pull down screen appears. The top item reads "Resolution". It
shows a setting of 96.
>change setting to 84.
OK.
>load designer manual
The Designer Manual appears on the screen. Its scale is reduced so
that the entire width of the page appears on the screen.
*** YOU HAVE WON! ***
Thanks to all who have responded to my queries. It's still a pain to
read the manual this way. GSView can't recognise any page numbers in
the new manual version, so you can only view it sequentially in a
forward direction, one page at a time. I await, still more or less
patiently, for the plain text version to appear.
Bruce Barnett