gxditview
(1)
Name
gxditview - display groff intermediate output files
Synopsis
gxditview [-toolkitoption ...] [-option ...] [filename]
Description
User Commands GXDITVIEW(1)
NAME
gxditview - display groff intermediate output files
SYNOPSIS
gxditview [-toolkitoption ...] [-option ...] [filename]
DESCRIPTION
The gxditview program displays the groff intermediate out-
put, see groff_out(5), on an X display. It uses the stan-
dard X11 fonts, so it does not require access to the server
machine for font loading. There are several ways to use
gxditview.
The groff intermediate output can be generated by groff -Z.
This can be viewed by explicity calling gxditview filename.
If filename is -, gxditview will read the standard input;
filename cannot be omitted. The groff intermediate output
is different for all devices. gxditview can view it for all
devices, but the quality is not always good.
The best result is achieved with the X* devices for groff's
option -T. There are four X* devices: -TX75, -TX75-12,
-TX100, -TX100-12. They differ by the X resolution (75dpi
or 100dpi) and the used base font size (10pt or 12pt). They
are especially built for gxditview. When using one of them
groff generates the intermediate output for this device and
calls gxditview automatically for viewing.
groff's option -X should be considered obsolete today; it
produces intermediate output for Postscript and uses
gxditview as a viewer for it, but with a bad quality. Sim-
ply don't use it.
During the run of gxditview, the left mouse button brings up
a menu with the following entries:
Next Page
Display the next page.
Previous Page
Display the previous page.
Select Page
Select a particular numbered page specified by a
dialog box.
Print Print the groff intermediate output using a command
specified by a dialog box. The default command ini-
tially displayed is controlled by the printCommand
application resource, and by the -printCommand
option.
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Open Open for display a new file specified by a dialog
box. The file should contain some groff intermedi-
ate output. If the filename starts with | it will
be taken to be a command to read from.
Quit Exit from gxditview.
The n, Space and Return keys are bound to the Next Page
action. The p, BackSpace and Delete keys are bound to the
Previous Page action. The q key is bound to the Quit
action. The r key is bound to the Rerasterize action which
rereads the current file, and redisplays the current page;
if the current file is a command, the command will be reexe-
cuted.
The paperlength and paperwidth commands in the DESC file
specify the length and width in machine units of the virtual
page displayed by gxditview.
OPTIONS
The gxditview program accepts all of the standard X Toolkit
command line options along with the additional options
listed below:
-help This option indicates that a brief summary of the
allowed options should be printed.
-page This option specifies the page number of the docu-
ment to be displayed.
-backingStore backing-store-type
Redisplay of the groff intermediate output window
can take up to a second or so, this option causes
the server to save the window contents so that when
it is scrolled around the viewport, the window is
painted from contents saved in backing store. back-
ing-store-type can be one of Always, WhenMapped or
NotUseful.
-printCommand command
The default command displayed in the dialog box for
the Print menu entry will be command.
-resolution res
The groff intermediate output file will be displayed
at a resolution of res dpi, unless the DESC file
contains the X11 command, in which case the device
resolution will be used. This corresponds to the
Dvi widget's resolution resource. The default is
75.
-filename string
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The default filename displayed in the dialog box for
the Open menu entry will be string. This can be
either a filename, or a command starting with |.
The following standard X Toolkit command line arguments are
commonly used with gxditview:
-bg color
This option specifies the color to use for the back-
ground of the window. The default is white.
-bd color
This option specifies the color to use for the bor-
der of the window. The default is black.
-bw number
This option specifies the width in pixels of the
border surrounding the window.
-fg color
This option specifies the color to use for display-
ing text. The default is black.
-fn font
This option specifies the font to be used for dis-
playing widget text. The default is fixed.
-rv This option indicates that reverse video should be
simulated by swapping the foreground and background
colors.
-geometry geometry
This option specifies the preferred size and posi-
tion of the window.
-display host:display
This option specifies the X server to contact.
-xrm resourcestring
This option specifies a resource string to be used.
X DEFAULTS
This program uses the Dvi widget in the X Toolkit. It
understands all of the core resource names and classes as
well as:
width (class Width)
Specifies the width of the window.
height (class Height)
Specifies the height of the window.
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foreground (class Foreground)
Specifies the default foreground color.
font (class Font)
Specifies the font to be used for error messages.
fontMap (class FontMap)
Specifies the mapping from groff font names to
X font names. This must be a string containing a
sequence of lines. Each line contains two white-
space separated fields: first the groff font name,
and secondly the X font name. The default is
"\
TR -adobe-times-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
TI -adobe-times-medium-i-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
TB -adobe-times-bold-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
TBI -adobe-times-bold-i-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
CR -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
CI -adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
CB -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
CBI -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
HR -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
HI -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
HB -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
HBI -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
NR -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
NI -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-i-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
NB -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
NBI -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
S -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-adobe-fontspecific\n\
SS -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-adobe-fontspecific\n\
"
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | text/groff |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
X(1), xrdb(1), xditview(1), groff(1), groff_out(5)
ORIGIN
This program is derived from xditview; portions of xditview
originated in xtroff which was derived from suntroff.
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.
AUTHORS
Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium)
Richard L. Hyde (Purdue)
David Slattengren (Berkeley)
Malcolm Slaney (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)
Mark Moraes (University of Toronto)
James Clark
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.19.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
ware/groff/.
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