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- From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
- Subject: Re: ToolTalk, PageView, Filemgr
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.225229.5472@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
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- References: <1992Sep4.174242.18954@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> <9480@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 22:52:29 GMT
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- km@mathcs.emory.edu writes:
- > rouquett@Aig.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Nicolas Rouquette) writes:
- >>
- >>With 'strings pageview' I can tell that the program can respond
- >>to a tooltalk protocol. Does anyone know what message format needs to be
- >>broadcasted for a pageview to accept it and display a postscript file?
-
- I don't know...
-
- >As it sits, pageview is less flexible than suntroff since it can only
- >take a file (or a drop) as input.
-
- You can also do
- programs | that | generate -PostScript | pageview -
- to get pageview to read stdin.
- You can't edit the postScript for some reason, but you can still Print.
-
- >What I
- >really want is an application that brings up a textedit window, with a
- >button that runs the window contents through a specified pipeline, and
- >uses tooltalk to bring up (or reuse) a pageview to rasterize the
- >output. No temp files, no multiple clicks, just one click to update the
- >preview.
-
- Hmm, the old xvps demo did this for simple PostScript.
-
- >If there was a program that would take its stdin, use tooltalk to
- >bring up (or reuse) a pageview, triggering the rasterize, you could
- >approximate this with editor side mapping/macros.
- >
-
- The help viewer also takes ToolTalk messages, I think, as that seems to be
- how AnswerBook controls it. It might be worth looking at.
-
- Lee
-
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