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- From: brox@corena.no (Bjorn P. Brox)
- Subject: Re: PS Viewer
- Message-ID: <BuDAGC.Ip9@corena.no>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:48:12 GMT
- References: <18l48fINNitr@spool.mu.edu> <1992Sep10.080934.3339@meteor.wisc.edu> <ASTEINDL.92Sep10103314@mch2ws2.tuwien.ac.at>
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- In article <ASTEINDL.92Sep10103314@mch2ws2.tuwien.ac.at> asteindl@mch2ws2.tuwien.ac.at (Alois Steindl) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep10.080934.3339@meteor.wisc.edu> mjo@snclib.snc.edu (Mike O'Connor) writes:
- >
- > In article <18l48fINNitr@spool.mu.edu> craig@spool.mu.edu (Craig Schanning) writes:
- > : Is there a PD PostScript viewer available for AIX?
- > :
- > :Please send responses to pwickman@cerebus.cc.edu
- >
- > I'm sure that someone's filled his mailbox with "Ghostscript" and
- > "Ghostview" -- if nothing else, I've mailed him. What I wonder is
- > why IBM ships Display Postscript and yet doesn't ship a tool to
- > *view* Postscript! DEC and Sun certainly don't have this problem.
- > Any comments?
- >
- > --
- > Mike O'Connor
- > "The NNTP Administrator"
- > <mjo@snclib.snc.edu>
- >
- >There is a tool: dpsexec.
- >It isn't very convenient to use, but works.
- >I use it in the way
- >/usr/lpp/DPS/bin/dpsexec
- >
- >> (filename) run
- >^D
- >
- Wrong again... IBM does have a DPS based PostScript previewer which works
- like ghostview.
-
- Try:
- xpreview document.ps
-
- From the manual:
- The xpreview command is an AIXwindows 1.2- and Motif1.1-based
- application that displays output from the troff command on an
- AIXwindows display. The troff command output file must be prepared
- for any one of the devX100, devX100K, or devpsc devices. The xpreview
- command also displays PostScript language files that begin with %!
- (percent sign and exclamation mark).
-
- It comes with AIX3.2 - you should have it if you have installed:
- txtfmt.xpv.obj "Troff Xpreviewer"
- For people that dont know how how to install software: RTFM!
-
- The number of fonts is limited (/usr/lpp/DPS/fonts/outlines/*), but
- its just to fill up this directory with the fonts you want.
-
- --
- Bjorn Brox, CORENA A/S, Baneveien 38, N-3600 Kongsberg, NORWAY
- E-mail : brox@corena.no, Phone : +47 3 73 66 11, Fax : +47 3 73 68 77
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