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>16. On-screen previewing of printable things.</H1
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>Nearly anything you can print can be viewed on the screen, too.</P
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>16.1. PostScript</H2
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>Ghostscript has an X11 driver best used under the management of
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the PostScript previewer <A
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>gv</A
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The latest versions of these programs should be able to view PDF
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files, as well. Note that gv has replaced the older previewer
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"Ghostview"; the new user interface is much prettier and featureful
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that ghostview's plain old Athena GUI.</P
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>16.2. TeX dvi</H2
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>TeX DeVice Independent files may be previewed under X11 with<A
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>xdvi</A
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>. Modern versions of xdvi call ghostscript to
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render PostScript specials.</P
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>A VT100 driver exists as well. It's called <TT
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>dgvt</TT
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works with GNU/Linux and svgalib, if that's all you can do.</P
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>16.3. Adobe PDF</H2
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>Adobe's Acrobat Reader is available for GNU/Linux; just download it
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from the <A
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>Adobe web site</A
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>You can also use xpdf, which is free software, and I believe<B
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