[comp.lang.postscript] Adobe filters and psview

larsa@nada.kth.se (Lars Andersson) (06/16/88)

We have got NeWS 1.1 running on a SUN 3/60 under SUN os 3.4. 
I expected to be able to preview, using psview,
the output from transcript filters (pscat, psdit etc) intended for a laser-
writer without any change. This turned out to be too optimistic, however.

After some trouble I was able to identify the changes to the prolog file 
needed to be able to view the output from ptroff (which uses pscat). 
Actually, I would like to go on and preview the output from psdit 
(including modifications for psfig!) and so on.

So, does anyone know of a way to make psview behave more like a laserwriter?
Maybe this is a question that doesn't have an answer, but any information 
would be appreciated.

Lars Andersson

larsa@nada.kth.se

roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (06/18/88)

larsa@nada.kth.se (Lars Andersson) writes:
- We have got NeWS 1.1 running on a SUN 3/60 under SUN os 3.4.  I expected
- to be able to preview, using psview, the output from transcript filters
- (pscat, psdit etc) intended for a laserwriter without any change. This
- turned out to be too optimistic, however.

	Sounds fishy.  We've got NeWS 1.1 running on 3/50s under SunOS-3.2
and Adobe TranScript (not the Sun verion; although I doubt there is any
difference).  We do "bib | tbl | eqn | ptroff -me -t - file; psview file"
all the time.  Works like a charm.
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