xditview(1X)                                         xditview(1X)



NAME
     xditview - displays device-independent troff files

SYNOPSIS
     xditview [toolkit-option]...  [option]...

DESCRIPTION
     xditview displays troff(1) output on an X display.  It uses
     special font metrics that match the font set distributed
     with X11, so it does not require access to the server
     machine for font loading.

   Options
     The xditview command accepts all the standard X Toolkit
     command-line options, as described in X(1X), as well as
     these options:

     -backingStore level
             Causes xditview to request a level of backing store
             from the X server.  The level argument can be one of
             WhenMapped, Always, or NotUseful. Without backing
             store, redisplay of the window can take up to a
             second or more.  This option causes the server to
             save the window contents so that when it is scrolled
             around the viewport, the window is painted from con-
             tents saved in backing store.

     -help   Displays a summary of the command syntax.

     -page   Specifies the page number of the document to be
             displayed.

     The following standard X Toolkit command-line options are
     commonly used with xditview:

     -bg color
             Specifies the color for the background of the win-
             dow. The default is white.

     -bd color
             Specifies the color for the border of the window.
             The default is black.

     -bw width
             Specifies in pixels the width of the border of the
             window.

     -display host:display
             Specifies the X server to contact. See X(1X) for de-
             tails.

     -fg color



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             Specifies the color to use for displaying text.  The
             default is black.

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

     -geometry geometry
             Specifies the preferred size and position of the
             window. See X(1X) for details.

     -rv     Simulates reverse video by swapping the foreground
             and background colors.

     -xrm resource-string
             Specifies a resource string to be used.

   X defaults
     The xditview command uses the Dvi widget in the X Toolkit.
     It understands all the core resource names and classes as
     well as these:

     font (class Font)
             Specifies the font to be used for error messages.

     foreground (class Foreground)
             Specifies the default foreground color.

     height (class Height)
             Specifies the height of the window.

     width (class Width)
             Specifies the width of the window.

   Using xditview with troff
     To build a file suitable for use with xditview, use the dev-
     ice description in devX75:

        troff -TX75 ditroff-input | xditview


LIMITATIONS
     The xditview command can be easily confused by attempting to
     display a file constructed for the wrong device.  Support
     for pic(1) is not yet implemented.

NOTES
     Copyright 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
     See X(1X) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

     Authors: Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium; Richard L. Hyde,
     Purdue University; David Slattengren, University of Califor-



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     nia, Berkeley; Malcom Slaney, Schlumberger Palo Alto
     Research; and Mark Moraes, University of Toronto

SEE ALSO
     X(1X), xrdb(1X)

     troff(1) in A/UX Command Reference
















































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