rc@wyse.wyse.com (04/05/89)
Does anyone know of any package that will allow one to preview
PostScript files on a Sun workstation ?
Any leads would be very much appreciated. I have ftp access.
Thanks in advance
-rc
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If you own a Sun workstation and are remotely interested in PostScript, BUY NeWS 1.1 for $100! It's a separate window system from SunView 1, but it coexists reasonably well and its native imaging model and communication protocol is PostScript. You get a zillion and one bitmap fonts, a OOP class system written in PostScript (!), thousands of lines of PostScript code, and a bunch of useful utilities. Working with PostScript code in NeWS is simple: To preview PostScript, just create a window and feed it PostScript. To create a Sun rasterfile of PostScript code, create a window, feed it PostScript, then execute the `writecanvas' operator. To develop and debug PostScript, connect to the server in a terminal window and start typing PostScript. The good folks in comp.windows.news have written programs for all these tasks. While I'm here, can anyone comment on using NeWS/2 running on OS/2 as a PostScript development environment? How about ghostscript on a PC? I can't use LaserTalk or other tools which hook up to a printer because mine is on the other side of a Novell network. I'm biased, I wrote window manuals for Sun. But I still miss NeWS. =S
bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler) (03/23/91)
I have a collegue who has a Sun 3/160 running SunView under SunOS 3.5. Does anyone know of a PostScript previewer that would run on her workstation? Pointers to commercial products as well as software available on the net are welcome! Thanks, in advance. Bruce -- Bruce W. Mohler Systems Programmer (aka Staff Analyst) bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu voice: 619-586-2218
rel@mtu.edu (Robert Landsparger) (03/23/91)
Under SunView, nothing off hand that I know of. Under Sun's OpenWindows, pageview is, IMHO, excellent for PostScript preview and editing. Great font display ability. Under X-window, xps is good. The fonts aren't display true to form because of license requirement. Ghostscript is available under X-windows, but I haven't played much with it yet. I'm going to take a look at it this weekend when I get time. Bob. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Robert E. Landsparger (rel@mtu.edu) | | Computing Technology Services | "Fall behind early, it gives you | Michigan Technological University | more time to catch up" | Houghton, MI 49931 (906) 487-2110 | -rel +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The above comments do not always represent those of my employer. +
brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) (03/23/91)
In article <17707@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler) writes:
<I have a collegue who has a Sun 3/160 running SunView under
<SunOS 3.5.
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<Does anyone know of a PostScript previewer that would run
<on her workstation? Pointers to commercial products as well
<as software available on the net are welcome!
You aren't going to like this answer, but move up to SunOS 4.1 and use the
OpenWindows pageview PostScript previewer. SunOS 3.5 is really out-of-date.
Now, I have to admit that there situations where you have to stay at 3.5,
I have that problem at work. But the machines that weren't hit with this
particular problem are at SunOS 4.1.
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rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc@spool.cs.wisc.eduaki@akix.uucp (Aki Atoji) (03/24/91)
rel@mtu.edu (Robert Landsparger) writes: >Under SunView, nothing off hand that I know of. GhostScript 2.1 comes with Sunview drivers. A commercial product called freedom of Press from CAI can display on screen as well. I personally prefer GhostScript. >Under Sun's OpenWindows, pageview is, IMHO, excellent for PostScript preview >and editing. Great font display ability. I agree that pageview is very good, although both pageview and newsprint had problems printing certain PS files. >Under X-window, xps is good. The fonts aren't display true to form because >of license requirement. >Ghostscript is available under X-windows, but I haven't played much with it >yet. I'm going to take a look at it this weekend when I get time. >Bob. >-- >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| Robert E. Landsparger (rel@mtu.edu) | >| Computing Technology Services | "Fall behind early, it gives you >| Michigan Technological University | more time to catch up" >| Houghton, MI 49931 (906) 487-2110 | -rel >+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| The above comments do not always represent those of my employer. >+ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aki Atoji {ncr-sd,ucsd}!serene!akix!aki {nosc,ucsd,hplabs!hp-sdd}!crash!telesys!akix!aki (only if above fail) aki@akix.uucp
rel@mtu.edu (Robert Landsparger) (03/25/91)
In article <1991Mar23.192039.28790@akix.uucp>, aki@akix.uucp (Aki Atoji) writes: |> |> rel@mtu.edu (Robert Landsparger) writes: |> |> >Under SunView, nothing off hand that I know of. |> |> GhostScript 2.1 comes with Sunview drivers. A commercial product |> called freedom of Press from CAI can display on screen as well. |> I personally prefer GhostScript. Just ftp'ed GhostScript 2.1.1 this weekend. I like it better than the other version I had. Will try and make it with the Sunview drivers and see how it works. The fonts look "jagged" at large scale at first play. |> |> >Under Sun's OpenWindows, pageview is, IMHO, excellent for PostScript preview |> >and editing. Great font display ability. |> |> I agree that pageview is very good, although both pageview and |> newsprint had problems printing certain PS files. I noticed that FrameMaker files sometimes will die when when using NeWS due to a setpapersize call. I put together an awk that will fix that and use it as a filter. Do you have any other examples I might be able to get from you to make newsprint have problems? --Bob +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Robert E. Landsparger (rel@mtu.edu) | | Computing Technology Services | "Fall behind early, it gives you | Michigan Technological University | more time to catch up" | Houghton, MI 49931 (906) 487-2110 | -rel +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The above comments do not always represent those of my employer. +
emee36@castle.ed.ac.uk (C Spencer) (03/26/91)
There is a British product called ralpage, which I think ran under OS 3.5. -- Charles Spencer email : C.Spencer@edinburgh.ac.uk Computing Officer Dept of Mechanical Engineering University of Edinburgh
henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton) (03/27/91)
In article <1991Mar22.201949.19617@mtu.edu>, rel@mtu.edu (Robert Landsparger) writes: * Under SunView, nothing off hand that I know of. I have GhostScript running in SunView on Sun OS 3.5. Works fine. And In article <1991Mar23.025010.17707@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: * You aren't going to like this answer, but move up to SunOS 4.1 * and use the OpenWindows pageview PostScript previewer. SunOS 3.5 * is really out-of-date. I've been running 3.5 on my home 3/60 since December 1988. Runs fine. Never crashes. Have GhostScript running in SunView. Works Great. ........ Henry
brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) (03/28/91)
In article <521@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton) writes: <And In article <1991Mar23.025010.17707@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: < < * You aren't going to like this answer, but move up to SunOS 4.1 < * and use the OpenWindows pageview PostScript previewer. SunOS 3.5 < * is really out-of-date. <I've been running 3.5 on my home 3/60 since December 1988. Runs fine. <Never crashes. Have GhostScript running in SunView. Works Great. OK, GhostScript works under SunView. I'll remember that. But, personal opinion node on, you will find that you are behind the times. Unless there is a reason that you can't move from 3.5 (the original poster asking the question can't because of money, etc, or like my site on a couple of machines due to the CAD or CAE software), you should move up to SunOS 4.1 and a version of Xwindows, be it Sun's OpenLook or MIT's pure X11R4 code and the various window managers that are around. The Xwindow environment is SO much better than SunView and more and more programs are being made for Xwindows. You can get many utilities right here off the net, and I have. These same utilities aren't available for SunView. In your case, you probably don't have the funds to upgrade your home system. I'm in the same boat for the Unix that I have on my home PC. I don't have Xwindows running at home, not because of money, but because of hard disk space to compile X11R4. But, at work, all systems that can be changed to SunOS 4.1 have been upgraded. I wouldn't go back to SunView again, even if you paid me (well, 6-digit numbers would do it :-). Personal opinion mode off. But, I will keep in mind that GhostScript is working under SunView. -- harvard\ att!nicmad\ spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!vidiot!brown rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc@spool.cs.wisc.edu
bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler) (03/29/91)
In article <17707@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, I write: > I have a collegue who has a Sun 3/160 running SunView under > SunOS 3.5. > > Does anyone know of a PostScript previewer that would run > on her workstation? Pointers to commercial products as well > as software available on the net are welcome! > > Thanks, in advance. > > Bruce > Thanks to the following people for responding to my question (above): Robert Landsparger rel@mtu.edu Robert A. Lerche ralerche@lindy.Stanford.EDU Jules Andrew Yasuna jy0q+@andrew.cmu.edu Aki Atoji serene!akix.uucp!aki@ucsd.edu Vidiot brown@vidiot.UUCP Scott Boyd scott@Futures.com Henry McGilton henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM Charles Spencer emee36@castle.ed.ac.uk This is a summary of their replies. Within the environment described above, the following products were known to work: Freedom of the Press (from CAI) GhostScript (from FSF) Ralpage Of the 3 products, GhostScript and Ralpage are freely available while Freedom of the Press is a commercial product. Of the freely available products, preference for GhostScript (especially the newest version 2.1.1) was consistent. Check UUNET or the archive data base for locations near you... Within the environment described above, the following produts were thought to work: NeWS (Sun's own PostScript interpreter) Finally, thank you *very much* for responding to my question! Bruce -- Bruce W. Mohler Systems Programmer (aka Staff Analyst) bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu voice: 619-586-2218