belk@cernvax.cern.ch (andrew belk) (11/28/90)
Hi. Anyone know if a DecWindows PS previewer exists for Vax/VMS. I know there is an Ultrix version, and there used to be a product called UTOX that did the job, but apparently DEC had a licensing dispute with Adobe. Any info appreciated. Mail preferred. thanks ! Andy Belk -- ... Anyd ...
nayeri@cs.umass.edu (Farshad Nayeri) (11/28/90)
>>>>> On 28 Nov 90 13:56:30 GMT, belk@cernvax.cern.ch (andrew belk) said: > Hi. Anyone know if a DecWindows PS previewer exists for Vax/VMS. I know there > is an Ultrix version, and there used to be a product called UTOX that did the > job, but apparently DEC had a licensing dispute with Adobe. > Any info appreciated. Mail preferred. thanks ! > Andy Belk > -- > ... Anyd ... We have a machine that runs VMS DECwindows, and there is a program that comes with standard VMS/DECwindows that allows you to preview PostScript files (Actually we use the Ultrix version (dxpsview) all the time here.) Its file specification is SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]DECW$PSVIEWER.EXE. If you run the default DECwindows session manager, you should get it in the Applications menu (I haven't used it for a while, so not so sure about this last statement.) It is not PD though. Hope this helps. --farshad -- Farshad Nayeri Object Oriented Systems Group nayeri@cs.umass.edu Dept. of Computer and Information Science (413)545-0256 University of Massachusetts at Amherst
jj1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph Jackson) (11/30/90)
Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 28-Nov-90 Re: PostScript Previewer fo.. Farshad Nayeri@cs.umass. (1108) > >>>>> On 28 Nov 90 13:56:30 GMT, belk@cernvax.cern.ch (andrew belk) said: > > Hi. Anyone know if a DecWindows PS previewer exists for Vax/VMS. I know there > > is an Ultrix version, and there used to be a product called UTOX that did the > > job, but apparently DEC had a licensing dispute with Adobe. > > Any info appreciated. Mail preferred. thanks ! > > Andy Belk > We have a machine that runs VMS DECwindows, and there is a program that comes > with standard VMS/DECwindows that allows you to preview PostScript files > (Actually we use the Ultrix version (dxpsview) all the time here.) Its file > specification is SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]DECW$PSVIEWER.EXE. If you run the default > DECwindows session manager, you should get it in the Applications menu (I > haven't used it for a while, so not so sure about this last statement.) > It is not PD though. Hope this helps. > --farshad > -- > Farshad Nayeri Object Oriented Systems Group > nayeri@cs.umass.edu Dept. of Computer and Information Science > (413)545-0256 University of Massachusetts at Amherst From what I heard at DECUS last spring, that version of the PostScript previewer wasn't supposed to be released, but made it out in one of the VMS V5.1 versions by accident. It doesn't appear in any later releases. VMS V5.4, however, introduces Display PostScript support in the VMS DECwindows server. A PostScript previewer is bundled in the Compound Document Architecture's VIEW utility. I've experimented with both the previewer and Display PostScript programs with success (and glee!) Joe Jackson VMS User Consultant Carnegie Mellon University