ravi@mupsy.UUCP (Ravi Ramaswamy ) (10/31/88)
We have just installed an Apollo Domain network with a couple of DN3000s and 4000s running AEGIS and DOMAIN/IX. An Apple LaserWriter Plus (which I understand has a built-in Postscript interpreter) is used to print most of our documentation generated with nroff/fmt. We are looking for software that would allow us to generate and view postscript files before they are sent to the laser printer. Public-domain or low-cost software is probably what we could afford, but information on all the products that are available will be greatly appreciated. I'll post a summary if there's enough to summarise. Please mail me at: rr@uk.ac.umist.computation.vaxa Thanks in advance, Ravi Ramaswamy.
oliveria@caen.engin.umich.edu (ROQUE DONIZETE DE OLIVEIRA) (11/08/88)
From article <508@mupsy.UUCP>, by ravi@mupsy.UUCP (Ravi Ramaswamy ): > We have just installed an Apollo Domain network with a > couple of DN3000s and 4000s running AEGIS and DOMAIN/IX. >.... > We are looking for software that would allow us to generate > and view postscript files before they are sent to the laser printer. >.... > Please mail me at: rr@uk.ac.umist.computation.vaxa > > Thanks in advance, > > Ravi Ramaswamy. My 2 attempts to mail to the originator failed. Here it goes. I installed Crispin Goswel's postscript interpreter/ previewer in our apollo network about 3 months ago. It wasn't difficult to install and it works well. The problems I have with it is that it crashes if you mistype the name of a postscript operator (example, newpaht instead of newpath), it doesn't handle greek fonts (they are mapped onto another font), it doesn't preview postscript files created by Latex, Excel, Cricketgraph, MacDraw. It previews "well behaved" self-contained postscript files. You can interactively write and preview postscript programs. It is a must for a beginner in postscript programming (unles you have countless hours to waste and plenty of paper and a postscript printer). The original posting by Crispin Goswell can be found in volume 12 of comp.sources.unix . At the uunet.uu.net site they are in the directory comp.sources.unix/volume12 postscript (18 parts) A PostScript interpreter I include below some information from the author: -------------------------------------------------------------- From caag@vd.rl.ac.UK Wed Feb 17 07:03:51 1988 Path: caen!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!vd.rl.ac.UK!caag From: caag@vd.rl.ac.UK (Crispin Goswell) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Free PostScript Interpreter Message-ID: <27335.8802171203@vd.rl.ac.uk> Date: 17 Feb 88 12:03:51 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 My PostScript previewer was posted to comp.sources.unix before Christmas. Unfortunately, I let it out with a makefile set up to use a local graphics library available only to UK Academics (WW). If you 'make sunPS', it makes a version for sun displays which writes straight on the frame buffer. I have posted a driver written by Terry Weissman for X11 to comp.sources.unix, which should appear shortly. In the US, the interpreter can be FTPed from: mimsy.umd.edu (Milnet East coast) and parcvax.xerox.com (Arpanet, west coast). called: PSPreviewer.tar.Z (compressed tar format). Ftpable copies are available in England from the Shareware sites: uk.ac.ukc|University of Kent at Canterbury Computer Lab: address=info-server@ukc.ac.uk:mode=automatic:type=1 Other sites may have copies. - Crispin Goswell -------------------------------------------------------------- A few months later Henk Tullemans posted an apollo driver. Part of his posting follows: Path: caen.engin.umich.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!philmds!prle!nvpna1!tullemns From: tullemns@nvpna1.UUCP ( Henk Tullemans 43761) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Apollo Driver for PostScript Interpreter Message-ID: <375@nvpna1.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 88 00:18:30 GMT Reply-To: tullemns@nvpna1.UUCP ( Henk Tullemans 43761) Organization: Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Lines: 3153 The following archive contains an Apollo driver for the PostScript Interpreter written by Crispin Goswell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The Apollo driver can be found in the file hard.c. -------------------------------------------------------------- Later, 2 patches were posted by John G. Myers . They can be found in the archives of comp.sources.misc . At the uunet.uu.net site they are in the directory comp.sources.misc/psinter . The headings of this posting in comp.sources.misc follows: Path: uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!necntc!ncoast!allbery From: jgm@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (John Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sources.misc Subject: v04i006: Postscript interpreter patches (1 of 2) Message-ID: <12088@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 28 Jul 88 23:41:41 GMT Sender: allbery@ncoast.UUCP Reply-To: jgm@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (John Myers) Organization: System/Technology Development Corp. Lines: 1449 Approved: allbery@ncoast.UUCP Posting-number: Volume 4, Issue 6 Submitted-by: "John Myers" <jgm@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu> Archive-name: psinter-patch1 -------------------------------------------------------------- To install it, I suggest you get the original posting, then the apollo driver, then apply the patches. Roque D. Oliveira oliveria@caen.engin.umich.edu