diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'static/v10/man9/psi.9')
| -rw-r--r-- | static/v10/man9/psi.9 | 142 |
1 files changed, 142 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/static/v10/man9/psi.9 b/static/v10/man9/psi.9 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2887d009 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/v10/man9/psi.9 @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +.TH PSI 9.1 +.CT 1 writing_output +.SH NAME +psi \- postscript interpreter +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B psi +[ +.I option ... +] [ +.I file +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Psi +reads Postscript input from +.I file +or from standard input +and simulates the resulting pages in a +.IR mux (9.1) +layer. +The program remains in the layer at exit; further invocations of +.I psi +in that layer avoid download time. +.PP +The options are +.TP +.BI -p n +Display page +.IR n , +where +.I n +is determined from the +.B %%Page +comments in the file. +If these are not present, page selection will not work. +.TP +.B -R +Pages in the file are in reverse order. This flag must be used on such files +for the +.I -p +option to work. +.TP +.B -r +Display the image at full scale, with the bottom left +corner positioned 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.) +.HP +.B -a +.I x y +.br +Display the image at full scale with position +.I x,y +of the image placed at the bottom left corner of the window. +.PP +.I Psi +works on either a Teletype 5620, 630 or 730 terminal +as determined by the environment variable +.BR TERM . +.PP +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. +.PP +When the `cherries' icon is displayed, use mouse button 3 +to move forward +.RB ( more ), +to a particular page +.RB ( page ), +or quit +.RB ( done ). +Button 2 exits the program completely. +.SH EXAMPLES +.TP +.L +troff -ms memo | lp -dstdout -H | psi +.br +.ns +.TP +.L +troff -ms memo | dpost | psi +Two equivalent ways to format a memo, convert it to PostScript, +and display it. +.PP +For best results with TeX documents, use +.B dvips +with the +.BR -Tjerq , +.BR -Tgnot , +or +.B "-D 100" +option to get fonts of the proper resolution and run +.I psi +with the +.I -r +or +.I -a +flag to prevent +.I psi +from scaling. +.SH FILES +.TF psi.err +.TP +.F psi.err +error messages +.SH SEE ALSO +.IR lp (1), +.IR dvips (1), +.IR postscript (8), +.IR proof (9.1), +.IR psifile (1), +.IR psix (1) +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +A `dead mouse' icon signals an error; +error comments are placed on file +.FR psi.err . +.PP +Symbols that lack bitmaps are replaced by `?' +and an error is reported. +.SH BUGS +A psi layer imitates +.LR "term 33" , +not +.IR mux . +Among other difficulties, it will not be reusable if downloaded +across the network. +.br +Unimplemented PostScript features are rotated images and +half tone screens. +Imagemasks may only be rotated by multiples of 90 degrees, not +by arbitrary angles. +.br +Skipping pages may cause operators to be undefined. |
