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3.2 Resources of gv

The following describes some of the resources of gv. The precise syntax of some of the resource values may be inferred from the appended default system specific resource file.

antialias
Whether antialiasing should be used. Valid values are True and False.

It defaults to True.

autoCenter
Whether the displayed page should automatically be centered (for instance when opening a new file). Valid values are True and False.

It defaults to True.

autoResize
Whether gv is allowed to resize the main window according to the size of the current page. Valid values are True and False.

It defaults to True.

confirmPrint
Whether printing requires an extra confirmation. Valid values are True and False.

It defaults to True.

confirmQuit
Whether leaving gv requires extra confirmation. Valid values are 0 (Never), 1 (When processing) and 2 (Always). The default value is 1, which causes a confirmation request when trying to leave gv in the presence of pending PDF to Postscript conversions.
scrollingEyeGuide
If this resource is True scrolling via the keyboard causes a temporary border to be drawn around the previously visible area of the page. Allowed values are True and False.

It defaults to True.

ignoreEOF
Defines the behaviour of the postscript scanner as described in the Options section. Valid values are True and False.

It defaults to True.

respectDSC
Determines whether gv should attempt to respect document structuring comments. Valid values are True and False.

It defaults to True.

reverseScrolling
Defines the interpretation of directions when scrolling with the mouse. Valid values are True and False.

It defaults to False.

swapLandscape
Whether the meaning of landscape and seacape should be interchanged. Valid values are True and False.

It defaults to False.

scratchDir
Specifies a directory used to store temporary data.

It defaults to the invocation directory.

defaultSaveDir
Specifies the default destination directory for files to be saved.

It defaults to the home directory, ~/.

useBackingPixmap
If the value of this resource is False the X Server is advised that saving off-screen pixels of the displayed page would be beneficial (maintaining backing store). In this case gv does not actively maintain the contents of the page but relies on the X Server. The server is, however, always free to stop maintaining backing backing store. If the value of this resource is True the X Server is advised that maintaining backing store is not useful. In this case gv attempts to allocate a sufficiently large pixmap to store the contents of the displayed page.

It defaults to True.

watchFile
Whether the document should be checked periodically and updated automatically if changes are detected. Valid values are True and False.

It defaults to False.

watchFileFrequency
Defines the time in milliseconds elapsing between successive checks of the document when watchFile is set to True. Allowed values must be larger than 500.

It defaults to 1000.

printCommand
The command used for printing a file. The command may contain multiple %s wildcards which will be replaced by the name of the file to be printed.

It defaults to lpr.

gsInterpreter
The command used to start the ghostscript interpreter.

It defaults to gv.

gsCmdScanPDF
The command used to extract document structuring comments from a PDF file.

It defaults to gs -dNODISPLAY -dQUIET -sPDFname=%s -sDSCname=%s pdf2dsc.ps -c quit

gsCmdConvPDF
The command used to convert a PDF file to PostScript.

It defaults to gs -dNODISPLAY -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sPSFile=%s %s -c quit

gsX11Device
The ghostscript command line option which activates the X11 device.

It defaults to -sDEVICE=x11

gsX11AlphaDevice
The ghostscript command line option which activates the X11 device with antialiasing enabled.

It defaults to -dNOPLATFONTS -sDEVICE=x11alpha

gsSafer
Determines whether ghostscript should be started with the -dSAFER command line option.

It defaults to True.

gsQuiet
Determines whether ghostscript should be started with the -dQUIET command line option.

It defaults to True.

gsArguments
May be used to provide additional command line options for the ghostscript interpreter. Starting gv with the -arguments arguments option will override this resource setting.

It defaults to the empty string.

magMenu
Describes the menu that pops up when preparing to to zoom an area of the displayed page.
dirs
Defines a list of directories accessible via the Directories menu in the file selection window. The special value Home corresponds to the users home directory, the value Tmp corresponds to the scratch directory as defined by the scratchDir resource.

It defaults to Home Tmp /usr/doc /usr/local/doc

filter
Defines the default filter to be used when displaying a directory contents in the file selection window. A filter is specified according to the syntax
     
        <filter>    := [<filespecs>] [no <filespecs>]
        <filespecs> := <filespec> [<filespecs>]
        <filespec>  := filename possibly including wildcards '*'
                       which match any character.

Example: The filter

     
        GV*filter: *.ps *.pdf no .*

screens out all files with names starting with a dot and keeps of the remaining ones only those which end on .ps or .pdf.

It defaults to no .*

filters
Defines a list of filters offered in the Filters menu of the file selection window. The filter None has a special meaning causing all files to be displayed when the corresponding menu entry is selected.
miscMenuEntries
Describes the menu that pops up when clicking with the third mouse button on the displayed page. The value of this resource is a list of menu entries.

Allowed entries are


showTitle
Whether the name of the displayed document should be shown in the title bar of the window. The name of gv's icon will also change accordingly if this resource is set to True.

It defaults to True.

maximumWidth, maximumHeight
When resizing gv will not attempt to exceed the size specified by these resources. These resources may be specified as a positive integer or as screen, optionally combined with a positive or negative offset. The default values listed above provide examples for this syntax. screen will automatically be replaced by the size of the screen.

maximumWidth defaults to screen-20. maximumHeight defaults to screen-44.

minimumWidth, minimumHeight
Defines a minimum size for the main window. Valid values for both resources are positive integers larger than 200.

minimumWidth defaults to 400. minimumHeight defaults to 430.

scale
Sets the initial scale. The value of this resource is the offset of the scale to be selected relative to the scale 1.0 in the the Scale menu.

It defaults to 0.

scaleBase
Selects the initial scale base. The value of this resource should be a positive integer.

It defaults to 1.

scales
Defines the available scales bases and scales in the Scale menu.
orientation
Sets the initial orientation. Valid values are

automatic causes gv to attempt to derive the correct orientation from document structuring comments.

It defaults to automatic.

fallbackOrientation
Defines the paper-size to be used when automatic orientation detetction fails. Valid values are portrait, landscape, seascape and upside-down.

It defaults to portrait.

medias
A list describing the page medias known to gv. List entries starting with ! or # will not appear in the Media menu but will still be used for automatic paper size detection.
pagemedia
Sets the paper size. Allowd values are as given in the above list of paper-sizes. Specifying automatic causes gv to attempt to derive the correct paper-size from document structuring comments.

It defaults to automatic.

fallbackPageMedia
Defines the paper-size to be used when automatic paper-size detetction fails. Valid values are as given in the above list of paper-sizes.

It defaults to a4.