# 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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