warner@scubed.com (Ken Warner) (06/25/91)
Is there any product or tool or PDS that will display Postscript in an X window? What I mean is, if I have a Postscript description of an image or page of text, how can I interpret the Postscript and show the results of that interpretation in an X window? How do you do 'dat? Ken Warner
fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) (06/25/91)
In article <756@scubed.SCUBED.COM>, warner@scubed.com (Ken Warner) writes: |> Is there any product or tool or PDS that will display Postscript in an |> X window? What I mean is, if I have a Postscript description of an image or |> page of text, how can I interpret the Postscript and show the results of that |> interpretation in an X window? |> |> How do you do 'dat? |> This is one of the popular FAQ item, so please check it. However, I post this follow-up for one reason, I am not satisfied with existing no-cost PostScript previewers, eg, ghostscript v2.21, xps etc. I have built all of them for our SUN SPARCs, DEC 3100s, IBM RISC 6000s (YES, gs v2.21 can be easily ported to this guy too :-) but when I compare their performance with SUN's PageView, there is simply no comparision! The later is *blazingly fast*!!!! And most of the time I am on a RISC 6000 320 which can easily beat the pants of a SUN SPARC 2! However, I have built SeeTeX v 2.17.2 for all our platforms, and I am pleased by it's performance, even though appearance is still nowhere close PageView's output. But for scientific paper proofing/previewing, the speed is very good. So, unless it's for pictures/graphics designs, I think no fee DVI previewers are much better. However, if your needs are beyond such and you don't want to pay money for a commerical product, well, get a faster machines (more costly) Sigh.. Sincerely, Chin Fang Mechanical Engineering Department Stanford University fangchin@leland.stanford.edu
datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) (06/25/91)
>follow-up for one reason, I am not satisfied with existing no-cost PostScript >previewers, eg, ghostscript v2.21, xps etc. I'm amazed at how people still cling to xps despite wide knowledge of its supercession by ralpage. >this guy too :-) but when I compare their performance with SUN's PageView, there >is simply no comparision! That's right -- PageView needs the xnews server to run, and is therefore of limited appeal. Even so, it has a way giving you a mirror-image of a page, and lacks even a clean way to exit. > The later [sic] is *blazingly fast*!!!! You must have lots of memory and spare cycles. Both the xnews server and pageview need both to run even acceptably fast. -- Use your wheels: that is what they are for. datri@convex.com
rchui@neptune.nswc.navy.mil (Chui) (06/26/91)
Is there any product or tool or PDS that will display Postscript in an X window? What I mean is, if I have a Postscript description of an image or page of text, how can I interpret the Postscript and show the results of that interpretation in an X window? Yes, try to use xps.