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1.1     ! root        1: .TH PSIX 1
        !             2: .CT 1 writing_output
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: psix \- postscript interpreter
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B psix
        !             7: [
        !             8: .I option ...
        !             9: ] [
        !            10: .I file
        !            11: ]
        !            12: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            13: .I Psix
        !            14: reads Postscript input from
        !            15: .I file
        !            16: or from standard input
        !            17: and simulates the resulting pages in a
        !            18: window under X Windows.
        !            19: If the large window it brings up is too big
        !            20: for your screen, you can use
        !            21: .I -geometry
        !            22: to change its size. You may also want to use the
        !            23: .I -a
        !            24: option described below.
        !            25: .PP
        !            26: The options are
        !            27: .TP
        !            28: .BI -p n
        !            29: Display page
        !            30: .IR n ,
        !            31: where
        !            32: .I n
        !            33: is determined from the
        !            34: .B %%Page
        !            35: comments in the file.
        !            36: If these are not present, page selection will not work.
        !            37: .TP
        !            38: .B -R
        !            39: Pages in the file are in reverse order. This flag must be used on such files
        !            40: for the
        !            41: .I -p
        !            42: option to work.
        !            43: .TP
        !            44: .B -r
        !            45: Display the image at full scale, with the bottom left
        !            46: corner positioned at the bottom left corner of the window.
        !            47: (By default, the image is scaled to fit the window, maintaining
        !            48: the aspect ratio of a printer.)
        !            49: .HP
        !            50: .B -a
        !            51: .I x y
        !            52: .br
        !            53: Display the image at full scale with position
        !            54: .I x,y
        !            55: of the image placed at the bottom left corner of the window.
        !            56: .PP
        !            57: Fonts are implemented with size-24 bitmap fonts.
        !            58: Those available are
        !            59: Symbol, Courier, Times-Roman, Times-Italic, Times-Bold, Times-BoldItalic, Helvetica,
        !            60: Helvetica-Oblique, Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-BoldOblique.
        !            61: Fonts
        !            62: Courier-Bold,
        !            63: Courier-Oblique,
        !            64: and
        !            65: Courier-BoldOblique
        !            66: are mapped to
        !            67: Courier.
        !            68: Other postscript fonts, including type1, may be used if
        !            69: they are supplied before they're referenced.
        !            70: .PP
        !            71: When the `cherries' icon is displayed, you can move forward
        !            72: by typing return or you can use mouse button 3
        !            73: to move forward
        !            74: .RB ( more ),
        !            75: to a particular page
        !            76: .RB ( page ),
        !            77: or quit 
        !            78: .RB ( done ).
        !            79: .SH EXAMPLES
        !            80: .TP
        !            81: .L
        !            82: troff -ms memo | lp -dstdout -H | psi
        !            83: .br
        !            84: .ns
        !            85: .TP
        !            86: .L
        !            87: troff -ms memo | dpost | psi
        !            88: Two equivalent ways to format a memo, convert it to PostScript,
        !            89: and display it.
        !            90: .PP
        !            91: For best results with TeX documents, use
        !            92: .B dvips
        !            93: with the
        !            94: .BR -Tjerq ,
        !            95: .BR -Tgnot ,
        !            96: or
        !            97: .B "-D 100"
        !            98: option to get fonts of the proper resolution and run
        !            99: .I psi
        !           100: with the
        !           101: .I -r
        !           102: or
        !           103: .I -a
        !           104: flag to prevent
        !           105: .I psi
        !           106: from scaling.
        !           107: .SH FILES
        !           108: .TF psi.err
        !           109: .TP
        !           110: .F psi.err
        !           111: error messages
        !           112: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           113: .IR lp (1),
        !           114: .IR dvips (1),
        !           115: .IR postscript (8),
        !           116: .IR proof (9.1),
        !           117: .IR psifile (1),
        !           118: .IR psi (9.1)
        !           119: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !           120: A `dead mouse' icon signals an error;
        !           121: error comments are placed on file
        !           122: .FR psi.err .
        !           123: .PP
        !           124: Symbols that lack bitmaps are replaced by `?'
        !           125: and an error is reported.
        !           126: .SH BUGS
        !           127: Unimplemented PostScript features are rotated images and
        !           128: half tone screens.
        !           129: Imagemasks may only be rotated by multiples of 90 degrees, not
        !           130: by arbitrary angles.
        !           131: .br
        !           132: Skipping pages may cause operators to be undefined.

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