On 02-Aug-09 19:20:39, Bernd Warken wrote: >> Von: "Blake McBride" <bl...@mcbride.name> > T> groffer --ps --ps-viewer evince groff >> It doesn't display the pages (although "evince file.ps" works fine). > > I tried that with groff 1.18.1 of Debian testing and the actual > CVS-code of 1.20.1. > In both variations, xour groffer command worked without problems. > The temporary file was not deleted. even wtih several evince programs > running. > > Maybe your evince version is buggy. > Bernd Warken
I too just tried to test whether 'evince' behaves according to Ralph Corderoy's suggestion: "This can be seen at the command line. Ensure no evince is running. Type `evince foo.ps' and the shell prompt shouldn't return until you close evince's window. Now repeat, but whilst that one's running, do `evince bar.ps' in another terminal window. The shell prompt will almost immediately return showing evince has exitted. It has passed the work onto the already running evince." I did exactly that -- starting two instances of 'evince' from separate terminal windows on different files. Result: Two instances of 'evince' running in two different 'evince' windows and displaying the two different PS files. The shall prompt in the first window did *not* return, and its 'evince' window remained up. Evince 0.4.0 PostScript and PDF File Viewer Using poppler 0.4.5 (splash) (From the "Help --> About" menu). Debian 2.6.18-6-686 (Etch) regularly updated since installation. I did not try with groffer, but the baove indicates that different people are getting different results with 'evince'. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 02-Aug-09 Time: 20:34:36 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
