This is a copy of the WWW page created by Johannes Plass. The original is at http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/.

boo! gv 3.5.8


Contents

Description

Screenshots

Changes

Requirements

More Information

Availability

Copyright

Authors

Suggestions and bug reports

Acknowledgements


Description

gv allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter.

The current version is 3.5.8 (June 21 1997)

Please note that gv is derived from Tim Theisen's ghostview 1.5.


Screenshots


Requirements


More information

Further information about gv concerning command line options, resources and keyboard and mouse bindings is available format.

You may also be interested in the list of Frequently Asked Questions which was created by Tim Adye.


Availability

The source code of gv is available via anonymous ftp from thep.physik.uni-mainz.de. Direct links to some of the files which can be found there are listed below:


Copyright

Copyright (C) 1992-1997 Johannes Plass, Timothy O. Theisen

gv is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

gv is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.


Authors

    Johannes Plass             plass@thep.physik.uni-mainz.de
                               Department of Physics
                               Johannes Gutenberg University
                               Mainz, Germany
 
    gv is derived from GhostView 1.5, created by
              Tim Theisen      Systems Programmer
    Internet: tim@cs.wisc.edu  Department of Computer Sciences
        UUCP: uwvax!tim        University of Wisconsin-Madison
       Phone: (608)262-0438    1210 West Dayton Street
         FAX: (608)262-9777    Madison, WI   53706
 

Suggestions and bug reports

Please send suggestions or bug reports to plass@thep.physik.uni-mainz.de.


Acknowledgements

Tim Theisen created ghostview 1.5. , which was the starting point of gv.

Peter Deutsch is the author of the ghostscript interpreter, without which gv would be not more than an empty hull.

Kaleb S.Keithley turned Xaw into the extremely nice Xaw3d widget set.

Keith Packard invented the Layout widget, the heart of gv's widget tree.

I'd like to thank Martin Buck (Martin-2.Buck@student.uni-ulm.de) for not only extensively checking gv on Linux, Solaris, Irix and HP/UX but also for his suggestions, bug reports, bug fixes and discussions. Bjorn Nilsson (Bjorn.S.Nilsson@nbi.dk) put a lot of time into checking and fixing gv on Digital UNIX.

Tim Adye (adye@v2.rl.ac.uk) and William Bader (william@nscs.fast.net) contributed large amounts of code to the recent versions of gv. Hopefully they are not too busy fixing the bugs that I built in when merging their patches into the code :-)

Many thanks also to all those who sent me suggestions, bug fixes and workarounds for portability problems for FreeBSD, SunOS, AIX and other operating systems.

Finally I'd like to thank Jim Jennis (jhjennis2@mmm.com) for carefully testing all versions of gv.


Last modified Jun 21 1997 by jp.