Name

gv [options] file — gv

Synopsis

/usr/X11R6/bin stdin stdout - file -- opt --help --version

GhostView displays an Adobe Postscript or PDF file in an X window. You can invoke it as gv or ghostview. The basic operation of the program is simple: click the desired page number to jump to that page, and so forth. A few minutes of playing time and you’ll have the hang of it.

GhostView is the definitive Linux Postscript viewer, but other free PDF viewers include acroread (http://www.adobe.com/) and xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/).

Useful options

-page P

Begin on page P. (Default=1)

-monochrome

-grayscale

-color

Use the given display mode.

-portrait

-landscape

-seascape

-upsidedown

Choose the page orientation, which normally gv determines automatically.

-scale N

Set the scaling factor (i.e., the zoom) for the display. The integer N may be positive (make the image larger) or negative (smaller).

-watch

-nowatch

Automatically reload the Postscript file (or don’t) when it changes.

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