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- From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen)
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- Subject: Re: Printers
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 23:23:23 GMT
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- Excerpts from ext.andrew: 10-Nov-92 Re: Printers Todd
- Inglett@rchland.ibm (1297+0)
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- >> This should actually be a fairly quick hack, if you are willing to
- >> depend on ghostscript. Just create a pixmap or window on the X
- > server, and set the enviornment variable GHOSTVIEW
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- > Actually, this is what I had in mind for implemented an ATK version of a
- > postscript previewer. It would use ghostscript to render the postscript
- > in a window, but otherwise would provide an ATK interface consistent
- > with ez. If the X server supports display postscript, that can be used
- > instead.
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- Yes, I've written one of these. Not too hard.
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- Bill
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