conrad@jupiter.ucsc.edu (Al Conrad) (12/07/88)
Has anyone succesfully used psview to look at documents prepared with: 1. ditroff -> transcript/psdit -> PostScript 2. tex -> dvi2ps -> PostScript 3. MacWrite -> PostScript captured with the command-F trick? Thanks in advance, Al Conrad conrad@saturn.ucsc.edu
msc@canth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow) (12/08/88)
In article <5648@saturn.ucsc.edu>, conrad@jupiter.ucsc.edu (Al Conrad) writes: > Has anyone succesfully used psview to look at documents prepared with: > > 1. ditroff -> transcript/psdit -> PostScript Yes, almost every day. > 2. tex -> dvi2ps -> PostScript I have looked at three different TeX to PostScript translators and all of them meddle in different ways with the innards of the LaserWriter. One of them even exits the LaserWriter server loop relying on the password being unchanged from the factory setting! These things are extremely device dependent and should not be used by a filter like this. None of these TeX filters will work on anything but an Apple LaserWriter. They won't work on Display PostScript. They won't work on other Adobe licensed PostScript printers. They are the work of hackers (in the traditional sense) and need major work to turn them into products. > 3. MacWrite -> PostScript captured with the command-F trick? I captured some stuff from MacDraw but I couldn't even get this to print out on the LaserWriter hooked to my Unix system so I didn't bother trying it with psview. > > Thanks in advance, > > Al Conrad > conrad@saturn.ucsc.edu -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@sgi.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl,sun}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."