steve@umiacs.umd.edu (05/09/89)
There's two that I know of. Look at the GNU GhostScript package, available for anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu. I don't know the filename; you'll have to hunt around. This has always seemed to me (from a very brief bit of poking at it, so I could well be wrong) to be a PS interpreter that works moderately well, but which isn't necessarily something at which one can just throw some TranScript output and have it show up. This also works only with X11 (which I regard as a feature...) The other is Crispin Goswell's PostScript interpreter. It's available for FTP from a lot of places, including uunet.uu.net and expo.lcs.mit.edu. Be sure that you get a copy both of the basic interpreter and of the three patch files, as this doesn't work well (if at all) without them. You can make xps (the X11 version, which sometimes crashes my X11 server) and sunps (which just blits pixels onto your Sun screen, and thus which works regardless of window system) from this package. I've got it installed here, and I at least am fairly pleased with it. Also, if you're using this package, be aware that you have to say, 'sunps -c letter filename' or 'xps -c letter filename'; if the interpreter isn't told what sort of paper to use, it will either display nothing or core dump. This package can be used for previewing TranScript output, and I think can even preview Scribe and Macintosh files with the right fiddling and/or prologue files. -Steve Spoken: Steve Miller Domain: steve@mimsy.umd.edu UUCP: uunet!mimsy!steve Phone: +1-301-454-1808 USPS: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742