Viewing
Abstract
SIMFIT provides a special viewer to browse ASCII text files such
as data files or w_readme.files, and the program manager w_simfit.exe
(or x64_simfit.exe)
can be configured to allow you to view PostScript and .pdf files using
GSview/Ghostscript or .pdf files using the Acrobat reader.
Viewing ASCII text files
You can use any text editor, such as Windows Notepad, to view
a SIMFIT data file, but this is not recommended as you may edit
the file by mistake so destroying the format and making it
impossible for SIMFIT to use. For this reason there is a SIMFIT
viewer that has the editing function disabled so you can scroll
through the file with no possibility of altering the format.
You should use this viewer, available from the menu of the
program manager w_simfit.exe (or x64_simfit.exe), to view test files to discover
the format required or to browse the results that SIMFIT writes
to the results log file. You can also use this viewer from any
SIMFIT program to review the results from current analysis.
Viewing PostScript and .pdf files
To see the graph of any EPS file or read the simfit manuals you
must have GSview/Ghostscript and SIMFIT must be configured
to use this package (or similar). For instance if you view the
file simfig1.ps in the viewer you will see plotting commands
(which is very instructive) but the same file viewed using
GSview will appear as a plot. Note that GSview can also be used
to view and print .pdf files but you may prefer to configure
w_simfit.exe (or x64_simfit.exe) to use the Adobe Acrobat reader for this purpose.
Note that GSview/Ghostscript can also distill PostScript
into pdf or transform into pcx, tif, jpg, bmp, png, etc.
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