mg@cidam.rmit.oz.AU ("Mike A. Gigante") (12/19/88)
Does anyone have the source to a redistributable dvi previewer for an Iris? Either 3000 or 4D version is ok. It doesn't need to be too fancy, just something to start with. thanks in advance, Mike
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV (Bates TAD/HRNAB ms294 x2601) (12/19/88)
Norman Naugle
nsquared Computer Consultants
P.O. Box 2736
Colllege Station, TX 77841
This guy is "suppose" to have TeX and a previewer, however, NO ONE, has
ever gotten a reply from him. I sent a letter to him 6 months ago and
never got a reply. Others on info-iris have had similar results. Maybe
someone else has what we want, or maybe someone has gotten a reply from
Norman Naugle. Good luck.aries@XP.PSYCH.NYU.EDU (Aries Arditi) (12/20/88)
I once spoke to Norman Naugle, and can testify that he does indeed exist! I believe that the previewer he has is for the Commodore-Amiga micros, written by one Tomas Rockicki. Maybe he doesn't answer your mail because you're UNIX.
mg@cidam.rmit.oz.AU ("Mike A. Gigante") (12/20/88)
Alas, our local SGI rep has unsuccessfully tried to contact N^2.. If no-one else has a previewer, I'll hack up dviapollo or dvisuntool. I have TeX, LaTeX, PiCTeX running on our 4D/70GT. It is too fast a LaTeX machine to ignore - all it needs is the previewer and I'll be set! Mike
msc@canth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow) (12/21/88)
No one has mentioned using a dvi to PostScript tool along with psview
as a mechanism to preview TeX documents. I recently posted a message
to comp.windows.news regarding my experiences with various dvitops
tools. To save you (and me answering your questions) time here is a
summary:
I tried 3 different dvi to PostScript packages sent to me by various
customers with the complaint that they don't work with psview.
On investigation I discovered that they will only work on an Apple
LaserWriter. They won't work with Display PostScript; they may not even
work with other (Adobe and non-Adobe) PostScript printers. Why?
Because they fiddle with LaserWriter specific details as outlined in
Appendix D of the Red Book. In other words they aren't portable.
The machine dependencies extend in one case to expecting that the factory
set password in the LaserWriter is unchanged. This package is attempting
to load some stuff into the LaserWriter environment so that it doesn't
have to send it for every document. But the code is buggy so it always loads
its preamble. The effort is questionable to begin with. It certainly doesn't
belong in every document produced. It belongs, if anywhere, in a print
spooler that know what kind of printer its dealing with.
--
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
msc@sgi.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl,sun}!sgi!msc
"There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to
a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV (Bates TAD/HRNAB ms294 x2601) (12/21/88)
What is psview? How has is it? Where do I get it? And how much is it?
msc@canth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow) (12/22/88)
In article <8812211623.AA02942@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>, blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV (Bates TAD/HRNAB ms294 x2601) writes: > > What is psview? How has is it? Where do I get it? And how much is it? psview is a PostScript previewer that comes as a standard part of the 4Sight window system on the 4D family. It does a reasonable job but there is room for improvement and we are working on it. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@sgi.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl,sun}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."