jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) (01/31/91)
rongchen@girtab.usc.edu (DragonSlayer) writes: >Hi : > I need help on a x-based program called "xps". It's a Postscript Previewer >in X-window. I ftp the tar file from MIT and after compilation, it didn't work >well. It even crashed when I try to preview some of the sample files came >along with the source. But it worked file for all my MATLAB plot (converted >to postscript). The thing bothers me the most is that it does not work at all >for the PS files converted from LaTex files. > The system provides latex as well as dvi2ps utilities, but every time >I try "xps -c A4 file.ps", it crashs and the following is displayed: Three advises: * xdvi from charon.mit.edu (18.70.0.224): - real WYSIWYG since it uses the same fonts which will be sent to the printer - reasonable speed * dvips from labrea.stanford.edu (36.8.0.47). - produces clean and compact PostScript - virtual font support - all other useful options... * ghostscript from research.att.com (192.20.225.2). - fast - handles almost anything They are by far the best you can get. Jan van der Steen -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jan van der Steen jansteen@cwi.nl Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands