GV(1)

💖 GV(1) — bestie, it's the manual 💖

okay so. this is gv, and it lives in section 1 (User Commands), and honestly? it's iconic. it's a viewer. for PostScript and PDF. that's the whole vibe. come sit with me and we'll go through every single flag together, no skips, no shortcuts, because you deserve the full picture fr fr. ✨

🦋 NAME 🦋

gv — Postscript and PDF viewer

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gv [OPTION]... [FILE]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

PostScript and PDF viewer. like, you point it at a document, it shows you the document. main character behaviour tbh. 👑

and now… the flags. all of them. buckle up bestie, we're going through every last one 🎀

✨ the option menu ✨

• [-]-monochrome — displays the document using only black and white. zero colour, zero notes. 🖤🤍
• [-]-grayscale — displays the document without colors.
• [-]-color — displays the document as usual. (colour mode, the default vibe.)
• [-]-safer — starts ghostscript in safe mode.
• [-]-nosafer — does not start ghostscript in safe mode.
• [-]-safedir — starts ghostscript from a safe directory.
• [-]-nosafedir — does not start ghostscript from a safe directory.
• [-]-quiet — starts ghostscript with the -dQUIET option. shhh. 🤫
• [-]-noquiet — does not start ghostscript with the -dQUIET option.
• [-]-infoSilent — does not show any messages in the info popup window.
• [-]-infoErrors — does not show warning messages in the info popup window.
• [-]-infoAll — does show all messages in the info popup window.
• [-]-arguments=ARGS — starts ghostscript with additional options as specified by the string ARGS.
• [-]-page=LABEL — displays the page with label LABEL first. jump straight to the good part 💖
• [-]-center — the page should be centered automatically.
• [-]-nocenter — the page should not be centered automatically.
• [-]-media=MEDIA — selects the paper size to be used.
• [-]-orientation=ORIENTATION — sets the orientation of the page.
• [-]-scale=N|f.f — selects the scale N, or arbitrary scale f.f.
• [-]-scalebase=N — selects the scale base N.
• [-]-swap — interchanges the meaning of the orientations landscape and seascape. 🌀
• [-]-noswap — does not interchange the meaning of the orientation landscape and seascape.
• [-]-antialias — use antialiasing. smooth edges, smooth brain no more ✨
• [-]-noantialias — do not use antialiasing.
• [-]-dsc — dsc comments are respected.
• [-]-nodsc — dsc comments are not respected.
• [-]-eof — ignore the postscript EOF comment while scanning documents.
• [-]-noeof — do not ignore the postscript EOF comment while scanning documents.
• [-]-pixmap — use backing pixmap.
• [-]-nopixmap — do not use backing pixmap.
• [-]-watch — watch the document file for changes. 👀
• [-]-nowatch — do not watch the document file for changes.
• [-]-help — print a help message and exit.
• [-]-usage — print a usage message and exit.
• [-]-resize — fit the size of the window to the size of the page.
• [-]-noresize — do not fit the size of the window to the size of the page.
• -geometry [<width>][x<height>][{+-}<xoffset>{+-}<yoffset>] — the geometry spec, exactly like that, all those brackets stay put, no editing, no cap. 📐
• [-]-ad=FILE — read and use additional resources from FILE.
• [-]-style=FILE — read and use additional resources from FILE. these resources have lower priority than those provided on the context of --ad.
• [-]-password=PASSWORD — Sets the password for opening encrypted PDF files. 🔐
• [-]-spartan — shortcut for --style=gv_spartan.dat.
• [-]-widgetless — shortcut for --style=gv_widgetless.dat.
• [-]-fullscreen — start in fullscreen mode (needs support from WM).
• [-]-presentation — Presentation mode (fullscreen, Fit to window, widgetless and no resizing of window). she's giving lecture hall energy 🎤
• [-]-version — show gv version and exit.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the full documentation for gv is maintained as a Texinfo manual. if the info and gv programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info gv

should give you access to the complete manual. go read it, iykyk 🫶

and that's the whole thing bestie!! this was gv 3.7.4, dated March 2013, and it ate. every single time. mwah 💅💖✨