ramon@skye.mit.edu (Ramon F Herrera) (11/20/90)
Bengt Lidgard (f85-bli@dront.nada.kth.se) asks: > This QUESTION or similar has been around for some time but I have never > seen an answer to it. > // > // > // Is there such thing as a PostScript-viewer on Macintosh??? > // > // > // I have seen 2 PS Viewers for the Macintosh. One of them is public domain and can be FTP'd from info-mac/util at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Its name is PseudoPS and it is very primitive. The other one is a commercial product called PostShow. I had the opportunity to try version 1.0. Their current release is 1.1. They tell me that they have 2 versions, one at $224.95 and a Pro version with more fonts and other features at $294.90. The company is: Lincoln & Co. 29 Domino Drive Concord, MA 01742 (508) 369-1441 With the version that I tried, I was able to do very simple stuff, such as displaying a table with sorrounding boxes, but I couldn't do any graphics, except for the example that came with the program. What I did was to use the command-F trick to capture several Mac PS files to which I added the Laser Prep using the program 'macps' (also available at sumex-aim, under unix). These files printed fine on a LaserWriter and a QMS connected to Unix computers. I have also tried the DECwindows PostScript Previewer 'dxpsview' that comes with the DECstations and I also have had more failures than successes. The bottom line is that I have yet to see a program that will take an arbitrary PS document printable by say, the Apple LaserWriter, and display it on a screen. Ramon Herrera
glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) (11/28/90)
>The bottom line is that I have yet to see a program that will >take an arbitrary PS document printable by say, the Apple >LaserWriter, and display it on a screen. Petition Adobe to release DisplayTalk for the Mac; Randy Adams and Bill Woodruff were showing it off at the Adobe Dev. Conf. this year but they said that its release probablity was questionable due to er, intelligent marketing decision-makers at Adobe. Essentially they were showing it to rally support. They had the DPS server running on the Mac to support it. Write to Cynthia Johnston, Warnock et al. saying that you want this. Or better yet, chuck the Mac and get a NeXT machine. (just kidding partially). What you're trying to do suggests that this is what you really want anyway. - g