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Article #11046Re: PostScript Previewers for Sunview
From: Roy Smith
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1989 02:53
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1989 02:53
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dclassen@vulture.bcm.tmc.edu writes (in Volume 7, Issue 149, message 8 of 13):
> I am looking for a PostScript previewer for SunView [...] I know about NeWS
At the NeWS tutorial at the recent USENIX, a neat NeWS hack was mentioned
call ps2bits. The general idea is that you run the regular NeWS server
but give it a special init file which makes it produce a raster file on
output instead of running a window system. I havn't had a chance to play
with it yet, but it seems like it would be straight-forward to write an
application of the psview flavor which takes your PostScript document,
feeds it through ps2bits and then pr_load()s the resulting raster file(s)
into a suntools window.
I believe the source for ps2bits is available from the news archive server
at sun; send mail to "archive-server@sun.com" with a subject of "help" to
get started. I'm doing this from memory, so I may have botched some of
the details, but it's essentially correct.
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: phri!roy@philabs.philips.com (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: PostScript Previewers for Sunview Message-ID: <3675@phri.UUCP> Date: 22 Feb 89 02:53:49 GMT References: <1396@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 20 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 11 Feb 89 01:43:32 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 162, message 8 of 11