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XDITVIEW(1)		     General Commands Manual		     XDITVIEW(1)

NAME
     xditview - display ditroff output

SYNOPSIS
     xditview [ -toolkitoption ... ] [ -option ... ] [ filename ]

DESCRIPTION
     The  xditview  program displays ditroff output on an X display.  It uses no
     special metrics and automatically converts  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 document  to	be  dis-
	     played at start up time.

     -resolution screen-resolution
	     This  specifies the desired screen resolution to use; fonts will be
	     opened by requesting this resolution field in the XLFD names.

     -noPolyText
	     Some X servers incorrectly implement PolyText with multiple strings
	     per request.  This option suppresses 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 contents so  that  when	it  is	scrolled
	     around  the  viewport, the window is painted from contents saved in
	     backing store.  backing-store-type can be one of Always, WhenMapped
	     or NotUseful.

     -help   This option indicates that xditview should print  a  usage  message
	     and exit.

     -version
	     This  option  indicates that xditview should print version info and
	     exit.

     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  win-
	     dow.  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 displaying text.  The
	     default is black.

     -fn font
	     This option specifies the font to be  used  for  displaying  widget
	     text.  The default is fixed.

     -rv     This  option  indicates  that  reverse video should be simulated by
	     swapping the foreground and background colors.

     -geometry geometry
	     This option specifies the preferred size and position of  the  win-
	     dow.

     -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 specifica-
	     tions, each of which consists of a ditroff name, some  white  space
	     and  an XLFD pattern with * characters in appropriate places to al-
	     low 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 ac-
     curately reflected on the screen; for servers which do not  support  scaled
     xditview will use the closest font from the same family.

SEE ALSO
     X(7), xrdb(1), ditroff(1), X Logical Font Description Conventions

ORIGIN
     Portions  of  this program originated in xtroff which was derived from sun-
     troff.

AUTHORS
     Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium)
     Richard L. Hyde (Purdue)
     David Slattengren (Berkeley)
     Malcom Slaney (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)
     Mark Moraes (University of Toronto)

X Version 11			 xditview 1.0.7 		     XDITVIEW(1)

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