Re: GSView and the Designers Manual


17 Nov 1995 14:21:37 GMT

In article <48hlj3$hvj@nic.lth.se>, Magnus Olsson <mol@marvin.df.lth.se> wrote:
>In article <48fkeb$401@news2.cts.com>, Bruce Barnett <bbarnett@tfb.com> wrote:
>>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.
>
>
>This seems to be because Graham has used an old version of dvips to
>generate the PostScript file, a version of dvips that (incorrectly)
>doesn't put any page information into the PostScript code.
>

For the record, Graham did not produce the PostScript version, I did.
I used dvips 5.474 which is admittedly Copyright 1986-92, as it is the
version currently available on our systems. If someone wants to
produce a more up to date PostScript file, feel free to upload it and
have the old one deleted.

>I have a PostScript version (generated from the TeX source, via the
>latest dvips) that contains page info. I also have a reduced-size
>PostScript file (generated by running the previous file through mpage)
>that will print two pages of text on each A4 sheet. They're quite big,
>so I'm hesitatant to do this, but if there is public demand I could
>upload them to if-archive.
>
>Magnus

Robert