XDITVIEW(1)
NAME
xditview - display ditroff output
SYNOPSIS
xditview [ -toolkitoption ... ] [ -option ... ] [ filename
]
DESCRIPTION
The xditview program displays ditroff output on an X dis-
play. It uses no special metrics and automatically con-
verts the printer coordinates into screen coordinates;
using the user-specified screen resolution, rather than
the actual resolution so that the appropriate fonts can be
found. If ``-'' is given as the filename, xditview reads
from standard input. If ``|'' is the first character of
filename, xditview forks sh to run the rest of the ``file
name'' and uses the standard output of that command.
OPTIONS
Xditview accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command
line options along with the additional options listed
below:
-page page-number
This option specifies the page number of the docu-
ment to be displayed at start up time.
-resolution screen-resolution
This specifies the desired screen resolution to
use; fonts will be opened by requesting this reso-
lution field in the XLFD names.
-noPolyText
Some X servers incorrectly implement PolyText with
multiple strings per request. This option sup-
pesses the use of this feature in xditview.
-backingStore backing-store-type
Redisplay can take up to a second or so; this
option causes the server to save the window con-
tents so that when it is scrolled around the view-
port, the window is painted from contents saved in
backing store. backing-store-type can be one of
Always, WhenMapped or NotUseful.
The following standard X Toolkit command line arguments
are commonly used with xditview:
-bg color
This option specifies the color to use for the
background of the window. The default is white.
-bd color
This option specifies the color to use for the
border of the window. The default is black.
-bw number
This option specifies the width in pixels of the
border surrounding the window.
-fg color
This option specifies the color to use for dis-
playing text. The default is black.
-fn font
This option specifies the font to be used for dis-
playing widget text. The default is fixed.
-rv This option indicates that reverse video should be
simulated by swapping the foreground and back-
ground colors.
-geometry geometry
This option specifies the preferred size and posi-
tion of the window.
-display host:display
This option specifies the X server to contact.
-xrm resourcestring
This option specifies a resource string to be
used.
X DEFAULTS
This program uses a Dvi widget. It understands all of the
core resource names and classes as well as:
width (class Width)
Specifies the width of the window.
height (class Height)
Specifies the height of the window.
foreground (class Foreground)
Specifies the default foreground color.
font (class Font)
Specifies the font to be used for error messages.
FontMap (class FontMap)
To associate the ditroff fonts with appropriate X
fonts, this string resource contains a set of new-
line separated specifications, each of which con-
sists of a ditroff name, some white space and an
XLFD pattern with * characters in appropriate
places to allow all sizes to be listed. The
default fontMap is:
R -*-times-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
I -*-times-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
B -*-times-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
F -*-times-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
BI -*-times-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
C -*-courier-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
CO -*-courier-medium-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
CB -*-courier-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
CF -*-courier-bold-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
H -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
HO -*-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
HB -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
HF -*-helvetica-bold-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
N -*-new century schoolbook-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
NI -*-new century schoolbook-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
NB -*-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
NF -*-new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
A -*-charter-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
AI -*-charter-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
AB -*-charter-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
AF -*-charter-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
S -*-symbol-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-fontspecific\n\
S2 -*-symbol-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-fontspecific\n
USING XDITVIEW WITH DITROFF
You can use any ditroff output file with xditview,
although files which use the fonts appropriate to the
fontMap will look more accurate on the screen. On servers
which support scaled fonts, all requested font sizes will
be accurately reflected on the screen; for servers which
do not support scaled xditview will use the closest font
from the same family.
SEE ALSO
X(1) xrdb(1) ditroff(1) X Logical Font Description Con-
ventions
ORIGIN
Portions of this program originated in xtroff which was
derived from suntroff.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright ([, X Consortium
See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.
AUTHORS
Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium)
Richard L. Hyde (Purdue)
David Slattengren (Berkeley)
Malcom Slaney (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)
Mark Moraes (University of Toronto)