X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:35:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Toby Allsopp cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi In-Reply-To: <87wt702jfw.fsf@nav-akl-pcn-343.navman.bnt.local> Message-ID: References: <87wt702jfw.fsf@nav-akl-pcn-343.navman.bnt.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Toby Allsopp wrote: > On 17 Oct 2006 at 05:47 NZDT, Ferran Mazzanti wrote: > > > The fact is that I've installed the latest release of cygwin, in an > > attempt to have a unixlike enviroment under my Windows box. I use > > LaTeX extensively and so I thought this could be a good > > solution. However, whenever I include postscript figures in my > > documents, xdvi refuses to display the, It produces an empty red box > > in the place where it is supposed to display the figure, but the > > figure does not appear. I can get the thing done by running dvips > > and converting the .dvi file into a .ps one, which I can view with > > gv. However this does not happen in my linux boxes, where I can > > directly preview .dvi files displaying the postscript figures. > > > > Any clue about this? Any simple solution I could try? > > I have had a similar problem caused by the fact that xdvi uses the > first gs it finds on the PATH and if you have the ghostscript and > ghostscript-x11 packages installed this is the non-X11 one and thus it > can't render to xdvi's window. > > I have the following line in my ~/.Xresources file to fix it: > > xdvi.interpreter: gs-x11 > > You could also pass the -interpreter option to xdvi. Thanks, this is useful information. Should xdvi be configured OOTB to look for gs-x11? If so, can the xdvi maintainer (if we have one) make a new release? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/