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Article #2243Re: Visualisation of Postscript files in Macs?
From: Ben Davis
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 16:08
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 16:08
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Rajan Nair (rnair@umich.edu) wrote: : > I can make some PostScript files, using GCG in Sun machines. I would be grateful, if : > you could recommend any particular programme that I can use to view these .ps files in a : > Macintosh. : I don't know of an easy way to look at the postscript file on the monitor. : But if you just want to print it, you could open the file with Microsoft : Word, select the entire contents, and change format from normal to : Postscript. In Word 5.0 and higher you do do this by holding down the shift : key, clicking the mouse on the "normal" style on the left of the top : ribbon, and dragging down to the postscript option. This operation will : change your font to Chicago. Now you can print the file on any Postscript : printer. There's quite a few very good shareware programs for printing ps files directly from the mac. MacLPR is the one we use - just drop the ps or ascii text icon onto it, and it prints - fast, easy to use (it sorts out whether its ps or ascii itself). There's a couple others whose names I've forgotten, but if anyone's depserate, I can dig them out. While we're talking mac printing software, save-a-tree is good for big text files. Lets you print 4 pages on one sheet of paper, so if you've got a database search you want to read over a coffee, you can. Very civilised. Ben -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Ben Davis, MRC Protein Function and Design, Cambridge, UK ______________________________________________________________________________ "They can make me do it, but they can't make me do it with dignity."
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