RBNTJC@ROHVM1.BITNET (Thomas J Cozzolino) (06/21/91)
We've got Display Postscript on our system (the standard libaries and
example programs distributed w/AIX). My question is, how can I use it?
The dpsexec program seems to be able to accept PostScript input and display
it, but how do I display an existing PS file? I tried
dpsexec < file.ps
but that displays the PS file, and then quits and deletes my X-Windows
containing the image.
It seems to shame not to use existing code. Any ideas? Please respond to
RBNTJC@ROHVM1 (Bitnet) or rbntjc@rohmhaas.com (InterNet). Thanks.fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) (06/21/91)
In article <91171.151735RBNTJC@ROHVM1.BITNET>, Thomas J Cozzolino <RBNTJC@ROHVM1.BITNET> writes: |> We've got Display Postscript on our system (the standard libaries and |> example programs distributed w/AIX). My question is, how can I use it? |> I had the same question a while back. After fiddling with the examples and searched on-line doc without too much progress, I spent about three hours hacked ghostscript version 2.21 by Peter Deutsch. You can ftp this thing from prep.ai.mit.edu. And link it with IBM supplied -lX. (I linked it with X11R4 lib and it failed to pass some tests, but IBM libs seems to do the job right. I didn't bother to check why) It's slow, appearance is not nice as DPS, but it gets the job done. You can use it for now until more info available for DPS I guess. BTW, does anyone know of a PS-to-DVI converter? I would love to use SeeTeX to do previewing as it's MUCH faster than gs and I can compress TeX/LaTeX dvi files for app docs and store them on line. So far I haven't found one yet and would appreciate it very much for any pointers. Sincerely, Chin Fang Mechanical Engineering Department Stanford University fangchin@leland.stanford.edu