[comp.soft-sys.andrew] Reverse video/Previewing documents

cameron@cs.flinders.oz.au (Cameron Humphries) (10/22/90)

Hi.

I am almost ready to release Andrew on the other members of staff however
before that happens I need to know whether it is possible to make an ATK
application appear in reverse video?

Also the question of previewing documents. I am using a program called psroff
to format documents. psroff translates troff to PostScript. I have a couple of
PostScript previewers however they require the user to "hit return" to go onto
the next page from inside the typescript window they were invoked in (that
sentence was a bit odd). This makes them inappropriate for use as a previewer
unless I make use of temporary files and start up a typescript window (or
something similar). Now for the question, is anyone else using psroff to
format and has already discovered a preview method. If not, I will have to use
the band-aid method described above and start hacking at one of the current
PostScript previewers that I have access to (believe me, hack is the right
word - just take one look at the code).

Thanks.
-Cameron

Cameron Humphries
Discipline of Computer Science                 email: cameron@cs.flinders.oz.au
School of Information Science and Technology   phone: +61 +8 201 2874
The Flinders University of South Australia     fax  : +61 +8 201 2904

ghoti+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Adam Stoller) (10/22/90)

Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 22-Oct-90 Reverse video/Previewing
do.. Cameron Humphries@cs.fli (1254)

>  I need to know whether it is possible to make an ATK
> application appear in reverse video?

You can make them all appear reverse-video by putting the following in
~/preferences:

*.ForegroundColor: white
*.BackgroundColor: black

Or - you can make certain applications behave this way, by replacing the
asterisk with the applcation name - eg:

ez.ForegroundColor: white
ez.BackgroundColor: black


--fish
(sorry, can't help you about the previewer)