alext@pine.comp (Alex Tomlinson) (04/16/91)
I'm looking for a way to preview PostScript files in X windows on a Sun 3/80. - Is there such a thing? - If so, where can I get it? Thanks, Alex
vishy@catinhat.Berkeley.EDU (V. Visweswaran) (04/16/91)
>> I'm looking for a way to preview PostScript files >> in X windows on a Sun 3/80. Try GhostScript (GNU software) from the Free Software Foundation. The sources should be available at most anonymous ftp sites that have GNU software ( it is available from wuarchive.wustl.edu under under pub/ghostscript-2.1.1.tar.Z ). Also, there is a program called xps that supposedly works under X11 R3, but I have not tried it. If you have OpenWindows/XNews installed, then you can use 'pageview' on the Suns. It lets you modify the postscript code and view it simultaneously, so it is really good for developing PS code. -- V. Visweswaran Email: vishy@catinhat.princeton.edu
brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) (04/16/91)
In article <ALEXT.91Apr15193044@pine.comp> alext@pine.comp (Alex Tomlinson) writes:
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Yes. There is OpenWindows from Sun. It has the pageview program. There is
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From Sun and the net (various ftp sites)
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In article <ALEXT.91Apr15193044@pine.comp> alext@pine.comp (Alex Tomlinson) writes:
alext> I'm looking for a way to preview PostScript files
alext> in X windows on a Sun 3/80.
alext> - Is there such a thing?
alext> - If so, where can I get it?
You could have a look a Gnu's Ghostscript. We use it here. Check out
your nearest GNU archive...
alext> Thanks,
alext> Alex
Steve.
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Hold the MAYO & pass the COSMIC AWARENESS...Leisner.henr801c@xerox.COM (04/18/91)
I have experience with xps and ghostscript. Use ghostscript as a base and improve (if you can) on it. marty (Knowledge is useful in the Information Age) (Software is mindstuff. It is the hardest activity created by man) ARPA: leisner.wbst139@xerox.com NS: leisner:wbst139:xerox UUCP: hplabs!arisia!leisner
datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) (04/19/91)
In article <8335@idunno.Princeton.EDU> vishy@catinhat.Berkeley.EDU (V. Visweswaran) writes in a window far too wide for mortals: >>> I'm looking for a way to preview PostScript files >>> in X windows on a Sun 3/80. [ wow -- proof that *someone* else out there has a 3/80! Love those diagonal simm sockets... ] >Try GhostScript (GNU software) from the Free Software Foundation. Kinda. It's a GNU program, but not really from the FSF. >Also, there is a program called xps that supposedly works under >X11 R3, but I have not tried it. xps was written by Crispin Goswell; a later and much more stable version is known as ralpage. It can be ftp'd from expo.lcs.mit.edu. Ralpage uses X's fonts, so it displays text fairly well. It's a little flaky, though, and I've never gotten it to work under anything but SunOS. Ghostscript uses its own limited set of bitmapped fonts, so displayed text at normal point sizes isn't very good. It's pretty robust, though, and handles color displays. Better yet, it compiles easily in lots of places. I run it under SunOS, HPUX, RISC/OS, and ConvexOS. It also comes with a chunk of code that lets one render directly into P{B,P}M files, which can be very useful. >If you have OpenWindows/XNews installed, then you can use >'pageview' on the Suns. It lets you modify >the postscript code and view it simultaneously >, so it is really good for developing PS code. Well, both ralpage and gs can be interactive -- you get an executive prompt. Pageview does, though, kinda embed an editor. Pageview has the odd quality that there's no "quit" available from its menus -- I guess Sun expects one to run olwm and use the features thereof to kill it off. I don't know whether to blame pageview or the code, but I've got PS files that pageview displays upside down and mirrored. -- -- datri@convex.com
cadp53@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (A. Carty) (04/19/91)
In article <ALEXT.91Apr15193044@pine.comp>, alext@pine.comp (Alex Tomlinson) writes: > > I'm looking for a way to preview PostScript files > in X windows on a Sun 3/80. > > - Is there such a thing? > - If so, where can I get it? > > Thanks, > Alex Sure is.........Try 'xps' from 129.127.40.3 [ I think! ]. It's preety good. -- |-------------------------------------------------------------------| | | "Mike? Mike? Can you hear me? | | Vermyn at: | I'll catch you with my death-bag! | | | You may think I've gone insane, | | cadp53@uk.ac.strath.vaxa | But I promise you.......... | | cadx613@uk.ac.strath.ccsun | I *will* kill again!!!!" | | cadp53@uk.ac.strath.ccsun | | | | -BOB | |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
fgreco@govt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco) (04/20/91)
> >If you have OpenWindows/XNews installed, then you can use > >'pageview' on the Suns. It lets you modify > >the postscript code and view it simultaneously > >, so it is really good for developing PS code. If you *do* have OpenWindows, you also have something called "xps" (under $OPENWINHOME/demo/xview) that is another XView app that talks to the NeWS side of the server. You write NeWS code in the TEXTSW, hit run, and rendering happens in the canvas below. Or you drag-n-drop PS files from the OPENLOOK filemanager into it (a la Pageview). You also have "psh" which opens a TTY connection to the NeWS side of the server. For an interactive session, you type in "executive" and you're off (or you can write a psh script). Default rendering happens in the framebuffer, or you can create a little NeWS canvas (a trivial one-liner) for your rendering. With a tiny bit more work (and I do mean tiny), you could also use the O-O TNT toolkit to create an app that renders PS and has an OPENLOOK interface. > > Well, both ralpage and gs can be interactive -- you get an executive prompt. > Pageview does, though, kinda embed an editor. Pageview has the odd quality > that there's no "quit" available from its menus -- I guess Sun expects one to > run olwm and use the features thereof to kill it off. I don't know whether > to blame pageview or the code, but I've got PS files that pageview displays > upside down and mirrored. Pageview does have its faults (OPENLOOK *users* are confused when they drag the image around... how about OL-style scrollbars?) but usually I've found the PS files to be offending by not conforming to EPS spec. Re: reverse mirror images. This one took a while to discover. Try commenting out the "initgraphics" someone in the top of your PS file, then try running pageview again. ie (this one works for me), sed 's/^initgraphics/%initgraphics/' < psfile | pageview - Frank G.
lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) (04/23/91)
datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes: [I'm posting this because the two problems are so common....] [1] > Pageview has the odd quality > that there's no "quit" available from its menus -- I guess Sun expects one to > run olwm and use the features thereof to kill it off. That's correct -- it follows the OPEN LOOK specs. If you don't run olwm (or olvwm) you can use xkill... [2] > I don't know whether > to blame pageview or the code, but I've got PS files that pageview displays > upside down and mirrored. If PostScript code contains "initgraphics" it will come out like this. Comment out the initgraphics (or delete it) and everything should be fine. Although pageview is *extraordinarily* slow on my 4/110, since I have no hardware floating-point, the editor (textsw, same as mailtool etc.) and log make it useful enough that I do use it fairly often. Lee -- Liam Russell Quin, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto... 416 963 8337... lee@sq.com `What one person finds valuable others do not even notice. And they do not notice that they do not notice.' -- Scott Kim, `Interdisciplinary Communication', in `The Art of [HCI] Design'