Reading motif documentation files (e.g., ch01.ps.Z)

[Chris Wareham]

Randy Kramer said on 16/08/08 01:23:
> I know this is OT for this list, but I thought someone here might have been 
> through this.
> 
> I downloaded openmotif, and now want to read the documentation files.  These 
> are presumably in postscript, and are named like ch01.ps.Z.
> 
> I've gunzipped them to get ch01.ps, and then tried to read them with 
> kghostview.  I see only one page, and down in the lower right corner there 
> are (typically) two very large letters (on the order of an inch tall).  
> 
> I've also tried reading them in acrobat reader but it won't open them saying 
> the files are either not supported or damaged.
> 
> Has anyone here gone through a similar thing?
> 
> Randy Kramer
> 

It could be that gzip has corrupted them. Try uncompressing them with
uncompress (I think it's in a package called ncompress on most Linux
distributions). You could also try running them through ps2pdf, as the
Gnome document viewer at least seems to be happier with the resulting
PDF files than with the original PostScript.

Finally, if you've downloaded the "official" Motif documentation from
the Open Group, then you might like to try the following documentation
instead:

http://www.ist.co.uk/NEWS/archive/motifbooks.html

It's the Motif guide and reference from the O'Reilly X Window
programming series, which I've found to be much more useful than the
Open Group documentation.

Regards,

Chris