On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Ted Harding <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk>wrote:
> 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. Not surprising. The real question is what the _second_ shell prompt did. > > > 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 ------------------------------ > > >
