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Previewing Mac-generated files

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From: Brian Rogoff
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 1990 22:19
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Hi, 

	I'm working on a program which must display PostScript programs 
on a SparcStation. We are working under X, using the Motif widget set 
for the UI, and GhostScript as our previewer. Most of the ps files we 
need to preview were composed with MS Word and Aldus PageMaker, on a Mac.
I have some questions about how to do this.

(1) Is there a way to transform ps files generated by PageMaker and MS Word 
    into portable PostScript programs, i.e., programs that use only those 
    operators defined in chap 6 of the Adobe's Little Red Book?

(2) Is there a better PostScript previewer than GhostScript out there for 
    the X environment on the SparcStation?

(3) Is the code for eexec available? Someone mentioned something to me about 
    this information being available in an Adobe "Black Book", but I've never 
    seen such a beast.

	Thanks in advance,
		Brian Rogoff (bro@sunsweet.stanford.edu)
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Subject: Previewing Mac-generated files
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Date: 11 Sep 90 22:19:04 GMT
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