(Ted Harding) schrieb: > On 14-Nov-08 12:03:58, Mike Bianchi wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:58:50AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >>>> I ``troff'' a simple file, hello.mm whose content is: >>>> >>>> .\" hello.mm >>>> Hello World! >>>> >>>> with the command line: >>>> >>>> $ /usr/local/bin/groff -mm hello.mm > hello.ps >>>> >>>> and opened it with ``evince'', then I found there are two short bars >>>> in topleft and topright corners of the page. >>> This must be a problem with evince then. Here is the PS output of >>> your document (omitting the preamble) as processed with the current >>> CVS version of groff (and I doubt that this has changed recently): >>> >>> /F0 10/[EMAIL PROTECTED] SF >>> 2.5(-1-)277.006 48 S >>> (Hello W)69.336 96 Q >>> (orld!) -.8 E >>> 0 Cg >>> EP >>> >>> As you can see, no bars are created. Maybe those bars indicate the >>> left and right side of the paper, similar to the flashing lines in gv? >> Is it possible the "two short bars" are the - 1 - (meaning page 1) >> that >> mm places as the Page Header? >> -- >> Mike Bianchi > > I also tested the example. When I viewed 'hello.ps' with 'gv' [but > see below], there was nothing wrong with the PS, and the top margin > duly contained the page number "-1-". > > However, I then viewed with 'evince', and could not see the "-1-": > it was as though the top margin had been cropped. > > I have had other bad experiences with 'evince' and now avoid using > it altogether. In my Debian/gnome installation, /usr/bin/gv does > not always work properly either, so I set up a symbolic link > > /usr/bin/GV -> /usr/bin/gnome-gv > which in turn -> /usr/bin/ggv > > which seems to work fine. So in fact what I originally viewed the > file 'hello.ps' I used GV! >
i tried to file also and i thing it is a evince problem. the -1- is clearly visible with ghostscript (gs) but not shown with evince. now the important question: did someone report this to the evince people ? re, wh GNOME evince 2.22.1.1 gs 8.62 groff 1.18.1
