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To: sven geier <sgeier AT caltech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: ghostscript?
References: <loom DOT 20040902T082303-587 AT post DOT gmane DOT org>
From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr DOT Volker DOT Zell AT oracle DOT com>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:21:54 +0200
In-Reply-To: <loom.20040902T082303-587@post.gmane.org> (sven geier's message of "Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:28:43 +0000 (UTC)")
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>>>>> sven geier writes:

    > This may be a stupid-newbie-mistake or something, but I installed ghostscript 
    > and gv and when I type at the prompt

    > % gv /path/to/some/ps/document

    > gv comes up fine, then gives me an error alert-box that 
    > says "Unknown device: x11"

    > Indeed, x11 does not seem to be one of the devices known to gs:


    > so how is gv supposed to work? I can't be the first one to note this and I'm 
    > sure there's something incredibly simple I have to do here somewhere but...

    > [scratches head]

...search the archives. You must install the x11 version of gs.

Ciao
  Volker


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