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- Note that is necessary to run a shell with job-control (e.g. csh) on
- the sun3 version when using PS, because of process-group problems with
- suntools. It is also difficult to alter the window shape when PS is
- doing output on suns. If the postscript/viewer pair are used, these
- problems are not encountered, but it runs more slowly.
-
- To try it out, type the following:
- $ POSTSCRIPTLIB=<where ever the postscript directory is>/postscript
- $ export POSTSCRIPTLIB
- $ PS -c 'A4 (demos/wow) lib run'
- $
-
- The "showpage" operator expects a carriage return before it erases the
- page and allows output to continue (or in this case for PS to
- terminate). More generally, use:
-
- $ PS -c A4 [ files .... ]
- $
-
- The A4 command is shorthand for a framedevice command (see the
- postscript reference manual) to create an A4 sized window. It is
- supposed to be actual size, except on suns, where the screen is not big
- enough (!)
-
- It also works on the perq, but much more slowly.
-
- If PostScript is not to be fully installed, the environment variable
- POSTSCRIPTLIB may be set to the pathname of /usr/lib/postscript.
- Alternatively, config.c has a variable called default_library[], which
- may be changed to point somewhere else.
-
- The tape contains:
-
- INSTALLATION which you are reading
-
- source - complete sources
-
- postscript - various files the interpreter needs to run.
- /font - font descriptors
- /fonts - font data
- hershey fonts (yuk) all we have available at present,
- however there are instructions on how to add fonts in
- the file "adding-fonts".
- /psrc - initialisation file ('rc' file).
- /cache - disk cache of popular font sizes
- /font-map - mapping from postscript names to names in font
- /demos - demos programs other than those in the cookbook
-
- doc - documents of interest to people installing postscript, particularly
- postscript.1 - manual entry for postscript
-