PSIX(1) PSIX(1)
NAME
psix - postscript interpreter
SYNOPSIS
psix [ option ... ] [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
Psix reads Postscript input from file or from standard input
and simulates the resulting pages in a window under X Win-
dows. If the large window it brings up is too big for your
screen, you can use -geometry to change its size. You may
also want to use the -a option described below.
The options are
-pn Display page n, where n is determined from the %%Page
comments in the file. If these are not present, page
selection will not work.
-R Pages in the file are in reverse order. This flag must
be used on such files for the -p option to work.
-r Display the image at full scale, with the bottom left
corner positioned at the bottom left corner of the win-
dow. (By default, the image is scaled to fit the win-
dow, maintaining the aspect ratio of a printer.)
-a x y
Display the image at full scale with position x,y of
the image placed at the bottom left corner of the win-
dow.
Fonts are implemented with size-24 bitmap fonts. Those
available are Symbol, Courier, Times-Roman, Times-Italic,
Times-Bold, Times-BoldItalic, Helvetica, Helvetica-Oblique,
Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-BoldOblique. Fonts Courier-Bold,
Courier-Oblique, and Courier-BoldOblique are mapped to
Courier. Other postscript fonts, including type1, may be
used if they are supplied before they're referenced.
When the `cherries' icon is displayed, you can move forward
by typing return or you can use mouse button 3 to move for-
ward (more), to a particular page (page), or quit (done).
EXAMPLES
troff -ms memo | lp -dstdout -H | psi
troff -ms memo | dpost | psi
Two equivalent ways to format a memo, convert it to
PostScript, and display it.
PSIX(1) PSIX(1)
For best results with TeX documents, use dvips with the
-Tjerq, -Tgnot, or -D 100 option to get fonts of the proper
resolution and run psi with the -r or -a flag to prevent psi
from scaling.
FILES
error messages
SEE ALSO
lp(1), dvips(1), postscript(8), proof(9.1), psifile(1),
psi(9.1)
DIAGNOSTICS
A `dead mouse' icon signals an error; error comments are
placed on file
Symbols that lack bitmaps are replaced by `?' and an error
is reported.
BUGS
Unimplemented PostScript features are rotated images and
half tone screens. Imagemasks may only be rotated by multi-
ples of 90 degrees, not by arbitrary angles.
Skipping pages may cause operators to be undefined.