cabp10@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (Dan Dare) (01/10/91)
This is probibly the wrong conf for this
but does anyone out there know how to convert a postscript file
into a sun raster or a gif
preferably in one move the reson for this is that I have a few large graphic
ps that I want to see on the screen. so even a ps viewer will do
can you tell me where to find such a beast
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All misspelling is my brains fault not minejik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (01/11/91)
In article <1991Jan10.132643.9676@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>, cabp10@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (Dan Dare) writes: |> This is probibly the wrong conf for this |> but does anyone out there know how to convert a postscript file |> into a sun raster or a gif |> preferably in one move the reson for this is that I have a few large graphic |> ps that I want to see on the screen. so even a ps viewer will do |> can you tell me where to find such a beast In order to conver a PostScript file into a Sun raster file or a GIF file, you have to have a PostScript interpreter that can read the PS commands and draw them onto a pixmap which can then be saved as a raster or GIF (by window-dumping it, probably). One available PostScript interpreter is GhostScript, distributed by the Free Software Foundation (it's GNU software). It's archived in the anonymous ftp directory on prep.ai.mit.edu, and at many other sites; use the archie server on quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (telnet to it and log in as "archie") to search for the string "ghostscript" to find the other sites. -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710