[Scribus] Viewing generated pdfs on Linux

Craig Bradney cbradney
Sun Jan 7 20:02:59 CET 2007


On Sunday 07 January 2007 17:02, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 22:11:10 +0100
> >
> > Plinnell <mrdocs at scribus.info> dijo:
> >>> Any recommendations for a pdf viewer?
> >>
> >> You can try GSview and the latest available Ghostscript. It does not
> >> color manage the display like Acro Reader, so CMYK colors may not
> >> display accurately, but it does handle PDF well. And its fast.
> >
> > What is the filename for GSview? I looked in Synaptic and it is not
> > listed. Is it under another name?
>
> Different distros seem to have their own tweaks of this. In its simplest
> the binary is named 'gv'. In KDE it's 'kghostview'.
> Try this command to see if you can find it:
> ls /usr/bin/*ghost*
> or
> ls /usr/bin/*gv*

gv is a broken, and as far as I remember, discontinued application.

Craig



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