royster@unccvax.uncc.edu (David Royster) (08/08/90)
I am certain that I have seen references to PostScript previewers before, but as with most of us, it didn't affect me until now. I need to have some recommendations about all available PostScript screen previewers that run on the MSDOS/PCDOS/??DOS platform. Any information about commercial or public domain previewers will be most happily accepted. I know of GhostScript and have heard only little about PSMagic. Where is the latter available for anonymous ftp? Also, I would like to hear of people's experiences with these programs and others. Did you like the program? Was it easy to use? Easy to install? Take only 75MB of your 30MB hard disk? Did it live up to the advertising? I will summarize for the net. dcroyster -- David C. Royster royster@unccvax.uncc.edu (128.143.109.1) Mathematics Department fma00dcr@unccvm.bitnet UNC Charlotte, Charlotte NC Augustus F. Mobius Jewelers---Rings to fit every finger.
terry@wolves.uucp (Terry L Parker) (08/09/90)
Goscript isn't actually a screen previewer, it is a per-processor which takes Postscript files as input and prints them on non-postscript printers (dot matrix printers, laser printers, etc...). I too am very much interested in a postscript screen previewer. If you find one (especially a "free" one), please let me know.
mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) (08/09/90)
In article <1990Aug9.012522.3101@wolves.uucp> terry@wolves.uucp (Terry L Parker) writes: >Goscript isn't actually a screen previewer, it is a per-processor which >takes Postscript files as input and prints them on non-postscript > printers (dot matrix printers, laser printers, etc...). > (to the above poster: please learn to put carriage returns at the end of lines...) Goscript does do "screen preview". You can't read it, all you can do is see where things go on a page, but do it it does. It also outputs files that CAN be used for a real screen preview if you write a little program to do it. Doug MCDonald
malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) (08/09/90)
In article <1990Aug9.012522.3101@wolves.uucp> terry@wolves.uucp (Terry L Parker) writes: >Goscript isn't actually a screen previewer, it is a per-processor which takes >Postscript files as input and prints them on non-postscript printers (dot >matrix printers, laser printers, etc...). First, a general comment -- many readers have software that will chop off long lines without carriage returns, making messages like yours unreadable. Please put carriage returns at the normal line break points, rather than assuming that the software will do it for everybody. GoScript isn't a pre-processor; it's a complete (well, except that they haven't implemented the 'setscreen' operator yet) interpreter for PostScript. It does precisely the same thing that the PostScript interpreter built into a Laserwriter does -- takes PostScript input and turns it into a raster image that can be pumped directly to the print engine. GoScript 3.0 has a number of different output drivers; when it is configured, you specify what type of display you have, and the '/w' flag causes the output to be displayed on the screen. Another flag will let you use an output driver different from the normal printer driver to either drive a different printer or output TIFF or PCX files. | "The three most dangerous Sean Malloy | things in the world are a Navy Personnel Research & Development Center | programmer with a soldering San Diego, CA 92152-6800 | iron, a hardware type with a malloy@nprdc.navy.mil | program patch, and a user | with an idea."
cosc4fp@jetson.uh.edu (08/10/90)
How can one acquire g script? A PostScrit previewer is what I am looking for. DLAgdd
geller@tfd.UUCP (David Geller) (08/11/90)
I've been using an IBM 6000/320 for several months. It has an Adobe PostScript engine for X Windows and works great. I use it preview PostScript code (in color). I'm thinking about converting my firms Windows 3.0-based PS spooler (not-yet announced) to the 6000 platform. But for those people looking for a good previewer - look to the IBM 6000 series. It's got real-Adobe display PostScript and runs like a bat out of... It our UNIX workstation of choice! David Geller Electric Logic, Inc. Washington, DC