tj@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Thomas E. Jones) (07/19/90)
This may be old news for most of you, but I didn't know it, so I'll share it with the few that don't. There is a public domain postscript viewer/interpreter that runs on Sun computers (and a few other Unix machines) under x windows or sunview. I'm surprised with how well it works. Typically, postscript interpreters lack features such as half-tone imaging, etc. This seems to work quite well. It uses crummy Hershey fonts, but it gives a good represenation of the overall layout of the page. It's not too fast, either. On a Sun/3 280 with FPA it shows several postscript files I have many times faster than any printer I've ever seen. I found my copy through anonymous ftp of bu.edu, whichh contains some speed enhancements from Barry Shein. If anyone knows of a newer version, please let me know. If you ftp to bu.edu, look in the pub/POSTSCRIPT directory, or something like that. - tj@xn.ll.mit.edu -- tj@xn.ll.mit.edu or tj@ll-xn.arpa (one of these should work) Thomas E. Jones, home (617) 924-8326 work (617) 981-5093