Re: [bug-gv] gv fails when navigating back and forth

[Frank Steiner]

Hi Williamn,

William Bader wrote:

> Can you post a small file? PgUp works only on files that have
> comments like %%Page and that have the prolog separated correctly.

thanks for your explanation. I looked at our ps file and figured out
that ghostscript is the culprit. We send our files through ps2ps
before printing (with the option for a preview with gv, during which
the pgup fails) and this seems to destroy the page stuff.

E.g.
  echo -e "asfd\fasf\fasdf" |a2ps -o 1.ps
will create a ps file that gv can scroll back and forth. But using
 gs -sDEVICE=ps2write -sOutputFile=2.ps 1.ps
(which is what ps2ps basically does) will make scrolling through pages
fail with 2.ps.

We need ps2ps to make files fit into a certain paper format and I'm
not aware how to do this else, so I guess I'll have to ask the
ghostscrpt people.

So, it's not the fault of gv, just our way of using it after ps2ps.

Thanks for your help!

cu,
Frank



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