sz@cci632.cci.com (Stephen Zehl) (06/14/91)
I've been trying to use pageview to display b&w and color postscript files generated by Island Write. Whenever I generate a document greater than one page in length, pageview displays all the pages at once. I'd like to find another postscript viewer to determine if it's pageview or Island that is the problem. Or find someone who has seen this problem before and possibly knows of a solution. If you know what the problem is, or can point me in the direction of an FTP site with a postscript viewer, please send me e-mail at the address below. Thanks. Steve. CCCC CCCC IIII Stephen Zehl Internet: sz@cci.com CC CC II Computer Consoles. Inc. Usenet: uupsi!cci632!sz CC CC II Rochester, New York. or : uunet!ccicpg!cci632!sz CCCC CCCC IIII DISCLAIMER: I speak for myself, not for my employer.
dab@ubitrex.mb.ca (Danny Boulet) (06/14/91)
In article <1991Jun13.205654.27616@cci632.cci.com> sz@cci632.cci.com (Stephen Zehl) writes: > > I've been trying to use pageview to display b&w and color postscript >files generated by Island Write. Whenever I generate a document greater than >one page in length, pageview displays all the pages at once. > > I'd like to find another postscript viewer to determine if it's >pageview or Island that is the problem. Or find someone who has seen this >problem before and possibly knows of a solution. > > If you know what the problem is, or can point me in the direction of >an FTP site with a postscript viewer, please send me e-mail at the address >below. Thanks. > > Steve. pageview suffers from quite a few problems although we've never run into this one. If anybody knows of any commercial quality postscript viewers, please post. Steve: You might have a look at ghostscript, a GNU tool available from lots of places. It isn't exactly commercial quality but it may solve your problem (it isn't stable enough to solve ours). > > CCCC CCCC IIII Stephen Zehl Internet: sz@cci.com >CC CC II Computer Consoles. Inc. Usenet: uupsi!cci632!sz >CC CC II Rochester, New York. or : uunet!ccicpg!cci632!sz > CCCC CCCC IIII DISCLAIMER: I speak for myself, not for my employer.
paulr@planetten.Aus.SUN.COM (Paul Rosham ) (06/17/91)
In article <1991Jun13.205654.27616@cci632.cci.com> sz@cci632.cci.com (Stephen Zehl) writes: > > I've been trying to use pageview to display b&w and color postscript >files generated by Island Write. Whenever I generate a document greater than >one page in length, pageview displays all the pages at once. > > I'd like to find another postscript viewer to determine if it's >pageview or Island that is the problem. Or find someone who has seen this >problem before and possibly knows of a solution. > Pageview finds out about the pagination of PostScript Documents via the Adobe PostScript Document Structuring Convention comments, which should reasonably be assumed to be present and correct in "commercial grade" PostScript. It does not do so via the `showpage' PostScript operator, which I guess (not being a development kind of guy ;->), was a design decision. Most PostScript code emitted from "commercial grade" application is, however, rarely conformant to either version 1.0 or 2.0 of the structuring conventions (see $OPENWINHOME/demo/PostScript/{psstruct,EPSF}.ps ). You might try Glenn Reid's "distill" program to restructure your PostScript document and insert conforming comments. Best of Luck! Paul Rosham Systems Engineer Sun Microsystems Australia Pty.Ltd. (My comments are generally ignored by management)
len@retina.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Len Hamey) (06/17/91)
pageview relies upon the Adobe document structuring conventions rather than the showpage commands in order to separate pages from each other. Otherwise, they could not render the last page without first rendering all the intermediate pages. You need document structuring level 2.0, which is a shame since some programs produce level 1. Len Hamey Lecturer in Computing Macquarie University NSW 2109 AUSTRALIA
marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron) (06/17/91)
In article <1991Jun13.205654.27616@cci632.cci.com>, sz@cci632.cci.com (Stephen Zehl) writes: > > I've been trying to use pageview to display b&w and color postscript > files generated by Island Write. Whenever I generate a document greater than > one page in length, pageview displays all the pages at once. > > I'd like to find another postscript viewer to determine if it's > pageview or Island that is the problem. Or find someone who has seen this > problem before and possibly knows of a solution. > > If you know what the problem is, or can point me in the direction of > an FTP site with a postscript viewer, please send me e-mail at the address > below. Thanks. > > Steve. > > CCCC CCCC IIII Stephen Zehl Internet: sz@cci.com > CC CC II Computer Consoles. Inc. Usenet: uupsi!cci632!sz > CC CC II Rochester, New York. or : uunet!ccicpg!cci632!sz > CCCC CCCC IIII DISCLAIMER: I speak for myself, not for my employer. PageView is quite picky when it comes to structured PostScript comments. I don't recall the details, but someone out there knows, since this has come up before. Might even be a FAQ by now? [M][a][r][c] ################################################################################ # # marc@sequoia.cray.com # . . # # Marc CR Bouron # M.Bouron@cray.co.uk (ARPA) # _|\ /|_ # # Cray Research (UK) Ltd. # M.Bouron@crayuk.uucp (DOMAIN) # (_|_V_|_) # # +44 344 485971 x2208 # M.Bouron@uk.co.cray (JANET) # | | # # # ...!ukc!crayuk!M.Bouron (UUCP) # # ################################################################################
brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) (06/17/91)
In article <1991Jun14.145200.16873@ccu.umanitoba.ca> dab@ubitrex.mb.ca (Danny Boulet) writes: <In article <1991Jun13.205654.27616@cci632.cci.com> sz@cci632.cci.com (Stephen Zehl) writes: <> <> I've been trying to use pageview to display b&w and color postscript <>files generated by Island Write. Whenever I generate a document greater than <>one page in length, pageview displays all the pages at once. <> <> I'd like to find another postscript viewer to determine if it's <>pageview or Island that is the problem. Or find someone who has seen this <>problem before and possibly knows of a solution. <> <> If you know what the problem is, or can point me in the direction of <>an FTP site with a postscript viewer, please send me e-mail at the address <>below. Thanks. <> <> Steve. < <pageview suffers from quite a few problems although we've never run into <this one. If anybody knows of any commercial quality postscript viewers, <please post. < <Steve: You might have a look at ghostscript, a GNU tool available from <lots of places. It isn't exactly commercial quality but it may solve <your problem (it isn't stable enough to solve ours). It may be possible that Island has a problem in that it isn't producing PostScript Document compliant code and pageview can't stop at page breaks because it doesn't know where they are. -- harvard\ ucbvax!uwvax!astroatc!ftms!brown rutgers/ INTERNET: spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!ftms!brown
jacquier@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Eric Jacquier) (06/18/91)
brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: ><> I've been trying to use pageview to display b&w and color postscript ><>files generated by Island Write. Whenever I generate a document greater than ><>one page in length, pageview displays all the pages at once. >It may be possible that Island has a problem in that it isn't producing >PostScript Document compliant code and pageview can't stop at page breaks >because it doesn't know where they are. So, SAS has the same problem, or rather PAGEVIEW. When I preview SAS postcript output with PAGEVIEW, it displays all the pages at once. Really a bummer!! Eric
lwv27@CAS.BITNET (Larry W. Virden) (06/18/91)
I believe that earlier in the year someone mentioned that there were similar problems with FM 2.0. There is an undocumented program in /usr/openwin/bin called fixframe2.0 - I seem to remember a note indicating that postscript fed into this critter would result in postscript fixed for pageview. So, I am going to test that out! Hang on.... Okay, it appears that fixframe2.0 ensures that there are FM fonts defined and adds a Page and a Trailer comment section. You might try this tool on your files to see if that helps any. -- Larry W. Virden UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27 Same Mbox: BITNET: lwv27@cas INET: lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg,OH 43068-1614 America Online: lvirden