source: archive/gsview.xml

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gsview-download-http "http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/ghostscript/ghostgum/gsview-&gsview-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY gsview-download-ftp  " ">
  <!-- <!ENTITY gsview-download-ftp  "ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsview-&gsview-version;.tar.gz"> -->
  <!ENTITY gsview-md5sum        "21c81819af0eeb42ac5ee6499f4a7116">
  <!ENTITY gsview-size          "931 KB">
  <!ENTITY gsview-buildsize     "11.4 MB">
  <!ENTITY gsview-time          "0.1 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="gsview" xreflabel="GSview-&gsview-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gsview.html"?>


  <title>GSview-&gsview-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gsview">
    <primary sortas="a-GSview">GSview</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to GSview</title>

    <para><application>GSview</application> is a viewer for PostScript
    and PDF using <application>X</application>.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gsview-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gsview-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &gsview-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &gsview-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &gsview-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &gsview-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required Patch: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/gsview-&gsview-version;-pstotext-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GSview Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="GTK"/>, and
    <xref linkend="gs"/><!-- or <xref linkend="espgs"/> --></para>

    <para>Note that you must build the shared
    <filename class="libraryfile">libgs.so</filename> library during the
    Ghostscript installation else the <command>gsview</command> program will
    fail at run-time.</para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gsview"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GSview</title>

    <para><application>GSview</application> uses <command>netscape</command>
    to browse through the online help. BLFS does not install
    <application>Netscape</application>, but has other browsers from which to
    choose. You can create a symlink from your preferred browser to
    <command>/usr/bin/netscape</command>, or simply edit
    <filename>srcunx/gvxreg.c</filename> using the following <command>sed</command>
    script with your browser's executable file name
    substituted for <replaceable>&lt;browser&gt;</replaceable>:</para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's:netscape:<replaceable>&lt;browser&gt;</replaceable>:' srcunx/gvxreg.c</userinput></screen>

    <!-- Pending investigation as to whether or not this is necessary for GPL
         Ghostscript.

    <para>The <application>GSview</application> package has not been updated in
    quite a while and does not accommodate the recent versions of the
    <application>ESP Ghostscript</application> package. If you installed
    <xref linkend="espgs"/> as your Ghostscript application, you must modify
    the maximum version of Ghostscript allowed. Make the modification using
    the following command: </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's:999:99999:' src/gvcver.h</userinput></screen> -->

    <para>Install <application>GSview</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gsview-&gsview-version;-pstotext-1.patch &amp;&amp;
sed 's:/local::' srcunx/unx.mak &gt; Makefile &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><command>sed 's:/local::' srcunx/unx.mak &gt; Makefile</command>:
    This command changes the default installation directory to
    <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> during the creation of the
    <filename>Makefile</filename>.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring GSview</title>

    <sect3 id="gsview-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para><filename>/etc/gsview/*</filename></para>

      <indexterm zone="gsview gsview-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-gsview">/etc/gsview/*</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>gsview and gsview-help</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>/etc/gsview and /usr/share/doc/gsview-&gsview-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gsview-prog">
        <term><command>gsview</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a viewer for PostScript (PS) and PDF files.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gsview gsview-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-gsview">gsview</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gsview-help">
        <term><command>gsview-help</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a script for displaying help files in your chosen
          browser.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gsview gsview-help">
            <primary sortas="b-gsview-help">gsview-help</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>