Re: [Groff] Problem using groffer with evince

[Ted Harding]

On 02-Aug-09 19:20:39, Bernd Warken wrote:
>> Von: "Blake McBride" <address@hidden>
> T>      groffer --ps --ps-viewer evince groff
>> It doesn't display the pages (although "evince file.ps" works fine).
> 
> I tried that with groff 1.18.1 of Debian testing and the actual
> CVS-code of 1.20.1.
> In both variations, xour groffer command worked without problems.
> The temporary file was not deleted. even wtih several evince programs
> running.
> 
> Maybe your evince version is buggy.
> Bernd Warken

I too just tried to test whether 'evince' behaves according to Ralph
Corderoy's suggestion:

  "This can be seen at the command line. Ensure no evince is running.
   Type `evince foo.ps' and the shell prompt shouldn't return until
   you close evince's window. Now repeat, but whilst that one's
   running, do `evince bar.ps' in another terminal window. The shell
   prompt will almost immediately return showing evince has exitted.
   It has passed the work onto the already running evince."

I did exactly that -- starting two instances of 'evince' from separate
terminal windows on different files.

Result: Two instances of 'evince' running in two different 'evince'
windows and displaying the two different PS files. The shall prompt
in the first window did *not* return, and its 'evince' window
remained up.

  Evince 0.4.0
  PostScript and PDF File Viewer
  Using poppler 0.4.5 (splash)

(From the "Help --> About" menu).

  Debian 2.6.18-6-686 (Etch) regularly updated since installation.

I did not try with groffer, but the baove indicates that different
people are getting different results with 'evince'.

Ted.

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