sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) (05/02/90)
In article <204@keele.keele.ac.uk> yufan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Yufan Hu) writes: >Could anyone please tell me how to pre-view a PostScript file >on a VT100 terminal before it is printed? >-- >JANET : yufan@uk.ac.keele.cs || Yufan Hu, >BITNET: yufan%cs.kl.ac.uk@ukacrl || Department of Computer Science, >other : yufan@cs.keele.ac.uk || University of Keele, Keele, >UUCP : ...!ukc!kl-cs!yufan || Staffordshire. ST5 5BG. U.K. I think Lanpar would be VERY interested in knowing it too if it can ever be done: to view high-res graphics on an ASCII terminal. IMHO, I don't think this can ever be done, if I understood correctly that you wanted to "preview" a PostScript in its final output form, not just to "view" the PostScript code, on an ASCII terminal. I hope I am wrong and such beast did exist. It will make everyone life easier. Andy
andrew@ist.CO.UK (Andrew Grant) (05/03/90)
From article <204@keele.keele.ac.uk>, by yufan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Yufan Hu): > Could anyone please tell me how to pre-view a PostScript file > on a VT100 terminal before it is printed? > -- Do you mean a VT1000 terminal? If you really do want to preview a Postscript file on a VT100 then unfortunately you will be disappointed. The VT100 is a textmode only terminal, so displaying graphics will be impossible. There are some VT100 compatible terminals with a graphics mode though. If you have one of these you could use a postscript interpreter running on your host to dump it's framebuffer to a file. Then all you need is a utility to display the bitmap on your terminal. If you have a VT1000 then you can use an X-Windows based previewer. I belive DEC either is or will be marketing one.
moconnor@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael O'Connor) (05/04/90)
In article <2781@istop.ist.CO.UK> andrew@ist.CO.UK (Andrew Grant) writes: >If you have a VT1000 then you can use an X-Windows based previewer. I belive >DEC either is or will be marketing one. The X-based previewer exists. I have seen it on Ultrix as dxpsview and a VMS version should be in the works when v5.4 comes out. .../\/\ike -- -- -- ...Mike (moconnor@argo.acs.oakland.edu)