Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!aplcen!haven!ncifcrf!toms
From: toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: HELP
Summary: PostScript under NeWS
Keywords: it's great
Message-ID: <1209@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>
Date: 28 Jul 89 17:44:38 GMT
References: <890726125142.49b8@sbgel.ucsb.edu>
Reply-To: toms@fcs260c2.UUCP (Tom Schneider)
Organization: National Cancer Institute, Frederick
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In article <890726125142.49b8@sbgel.ucsb.edu> lees@SBGEL.UCSB.EDU writes:
>I have just begun working on a SUN system and would like to transfer
>my old software to this system. I have many programs which generate
>POSTSCRIPT graphics (including grayshade patterns etc). Will I be
>able to use the NeWS to plot my Postscript plots directly on my
>graphics terminal?

Yes. You can use PostScript directly on a NeWS terminal.

> Is it a hassle?

No, it's lovely because you can dump directly to the screen just the way you
dump to the printer.  There are two programs available, psh and psview.  If you
have a standard PostScript program in a file, then you can
  psh postscript.program
and it will appear on the background directly.  You can also run psh
interactively, which is a great way to test and learn.  Psview puts the graphic
into a window that you can manipulate.  This works well on a Sun3.

Unfortunately on a Sun4 there seems to be a bug in the server, and one can't
have more than one copy of psview around at a time so it's a pain in the
begeebers.  (DOES ANYONE KNOW ABOUT THIS BUG???)

Finally, it is possible to put a command into the postscript file that makes it
run directly on Unix.  (You just type the program name and it goes.)

>What about color graphics? Will NeWS support that (color PS commands)?

Yes, and if you have a color monitor you'll be able to see the colors! ;-)

>Thank You - Jonathan Lees, ICS/Hollister Res. Cen., UCSB, Santa BarbarCA 93106
>             telephone# (805) 961-8421  lees@SBGEL.UCSB.edu

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21701-1013
  toms@ncifcrf.gov