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Article #1999Re: Request for Display PostScript Utility
From: nils-peter.nelson
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 1990 15:01
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 1990 15:01
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In article <663@seqp4.UUCP>, mcmullen@seqp4.ORG (Jim McMullen) writes: > We (Sequoia Systems) are installing Documentor's Workbench 3.1 > and want (would like to?) to bring up the PostScript previewer > mentioned in the promo literature. I looked through the > accompanying AT&T documentation and could not find any mention > of this component, which lead me to believe that the PostScript > previewer like the PostScript laser printer is a user responsibility. > Someone posted a SunOS (NeWS) postscript previewer a while back. There is a program called, I believe, xditview, on the X11R4 tape from MIT that previews troff under X. Internally we have a full PostScript interpreter which we use for various devices, especially the DMD 630 terminal. It basically works like a C compiler-- generic syntax/semantics front-end, then a custom-made backend for specific devices. We could make this a product if there were interest. We also may make xditview available as part of a future DWB release.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnewsm!cbnewsl!npn From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Request for Display PostScript Utility Summary: ditroff and PostScript previewers Keywords: PostScript, DWB 3.1 1, Display PostScript, X Windows Message-ID: <1990Oct30.150137.2521@cbnewsl.att.com> Date: 30 Oct 90 15:01:37 GMT References: <663@seqp4.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.text Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 19