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From: pusateri@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript previewer under Sunview
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Date: 30 Aug 89 15:53:00 GMT
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In article <644@sequoia.UUCP> keith@sequoia.UUCP (Keith Pyle) writes:
>I noted that the question was recently asked as to whether a Postscript
>previewer existed for use on a Sun.  The common response was to use
>NeWS for the Sun.  We have several users of Sunview (Sun OS 4.0.1) who
>would like to view Postscript output before printing and we do not
>have nor likely will get NeWS.

     I don't think you understand SUN's commitment to the NeWS/X11
Server.  You see, by the next major release of the OS, all Sunview
applications will be running on top of NeWS/X11. That means you WILL
likely have NeWS whether you want it or not. Most Sun users
are running OS 4.0.3 which at one point was supposed to include
NeWS/X11. Does SUN want to comment on when the NeWS/X11 server will be
shipped? Will it retroactively be shipped to all 4.0.3 users?

     Anyway Crispin Goswell has a public domain postscript
interpreter but it is hard to compile and half of the postscript code I
tried doesn't resemble a printed page.

     On the other hand psview (a NeWS application) works very well and
the screen looks identical to a printed page. 

     Don't give up on NeWS so easily. It really is quite nice and if you
have a little patience, it will be free.

Tom Pusateri

National Biomedical Simulation Resource
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710

pusateri@nbsr.mc.duke.edu