Re: [Groff] Problem using groffer with evince

[Blake McBride]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Ted Harding <address@hidden>wrote:

> 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.


Not surprising.  The real question is what the _second_ shell prompt did.



>
>
>  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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