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PSIX(1) General Commands Manual PSIX(1) NAME psix - postscript interpreter SYNOPSIS psix [ option ... ] [ file ] DESCRIPTION Psix reads Postscript input from file or from standard input and simu- lates the resulting pages in a window under X Windows. 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 po- sitioned at the bottom left corner of the window. (By default, the image is scaled to fit the window, 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 window. 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 forward (more), to a par- ticular 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. 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 re- ported. BUGS Unimplemented PostScript features are rotated images and half tone screens. Imagemasks may only be rotated by multiples of 90 degrees, not by arbitrary angles. Skipping pages may cause operators to be undefined. PSIX(1)