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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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