toppin@melpar.UUCP (Doug Toppin) (07/18/90)
I recently posted a question asking for Postscript previewers
for the Sun running X. Here are the responses I got:
Doug Toppin
uunet!melpar!toppin
#1)
xps is available via anonymous ftp from expo.lcs.mit.edu. It has
some deficiencies, but it works pretty well. I am working on some
enhancements for it. (The file name is contrib/xps.tar.Z)
Tim Theisen uwvax!tim
#2)
I know of two -- `postscript', by Crispin Goswell, and ghostscript from GNU.
The former was developed on a sun, the latter on DOS...
Both are free, and in the archives.
Liam R. E. Quin, lee@sq.com, {utai,utzoo}!sq!lee, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
#3)
I have source for a PD program called ralpage which runs under
Sunview and X. It is an excellent program but does have some
deficiencies namely not being able to view ps files generated by
TeX. If this minor inconvenience doesn't annoy you then you may be
happy with this. You also can't beat the price :-)
David uunet!jtsv16!geac!ists!nereid.sal.ists.ca!anthony
#4)
xps is available from most places that have X code. It works for
most things, but I have had a lot of things not work correctly.
There is also a program called ghostscript available from the
GNU folks that is supposed to work okay with postscript files.
Those are the only things that I know of.datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) (07/20/90)
> enhancements for it. (The file name is contrib/xps.tar.Z) "ralpage" below is a later version of "xps". First there was xps, then there was xps + great jgm mods. Many of the jgm mods are incorporated into the recent "ralpage" release -- I advocate starting from there, as things are more coherent, the makefile works, and it has a suntools driver. A couple of things are missing from the recent "ralpage", though -- the definitions for U.S. paper sizes that jgm added (like "letter") aren't there in the distributed psrc, and there isn't a statusdict. I was about to write my own statusdict when some kind soul posted one, which I reused. I find that ralpage displays most PostScript files now, including enscript and Frame files. > I know of two -- `postscript', by Crispin Goswell "POSTSCRIPT" was another of the names that "ralpage" now supercedes. >, and ghostscript from GNU. which I tried a number of times, and never got anything but core files. > The former was developed on a sun, the latter on DOS... DOS, eh? That explains it.. > I have source for a PD program called ralpage which runs under .. > deficiencies namely not being able to view ps files generated by > TeX. I can't test it, but I theorize that the deficiency might be with statusdict, as I mentioned above. > xps is available from most places that have X code. It works for > most things, but I have had a lot of things not work correctly. The "ralpage" incarnation, with jgm work, is much better. "xps" wasn't good enough for me to announce to my users, but "ralpage" is, and I have. --