dsl@rti.UUCP (Doug Lowman) (05/17/89)
In an attempt to do my part in preventing the senseless, and
unnecessary generation of laser printer paper waste, I am
in search of a POSTSCRIPT "previewer" that would allow
me to view a POSTSCRIPT formatted file on a VAXstation 2000
running VMS and DEC's Virtual Windowing System (VWS).
We have a variety of uses for such a tool, since we have
numerous packages that produce POSTSCRIPT output.
I know that there is a POSTSCRIPT previewer that is part of
DECwindows, but it may be a long while before we switch to
DECwindows here because we are running certain applications
that are *very* VWS dependent. (Note: DECwindows POSTSCRIPT
Previewer did NOT even get shipped with VMS V5.1 anyway.)
I'm interested in locating any of the following:
1) a PREVIEWER already exists for VWS
2) A PREVIEWER that is so generic that it interprets
POSTSCRIPT and puts bits into a virtual memory bitmap
--- we could then write something that could drive
the bitmap to the screen via VWS.
3) Other helpful hints or ideas.
I have found an X-version of a POSTSCRIPT previewer, but I'd
prefer not to go to all the work of porting it to VMS, removing
all of the X-isms and changing the X-routine calls to VWS.
I have also been told about GHOSTSCRIPT, but I'd prefer not to
have to support both a vendor suppiled "C" compiler and a "GNU"
C compiler.
Thanks
Doug Lowman ARPA : dsl@rti.rti.org
UUCP : decvax!mcnc!rti!dsl
Software R & D Department
Center for Digital Systems Research
Research Triangle Institute Research Triangle Park, NC