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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Postscript Previewer?
Message-ID: <12475@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 89 20:19:05 GMT
References: <2230@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <310@crltrx.crl.dec.com>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <310@crltrx.crl.dec.com> jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:
>A full PostScript previewer comes with DECwindows on Ultrix; it
>uses Display PostScript from Adobe, and should handle anything you'd send
>to a printer.

Hmm.. interesting ..

I was just using dxpsview and had a problem that I haven't gotten around
to tracking down yet.  We had some TeX DVI output which we ran through
dvi2ps (no, I don't know the heritage of our copy of dvi2ps) and tried
to preview it with dxpsview -- it gave me a message about an unknown
command "letter".

I've run into other files which dxpsview won't display.  Particular ones
were, I think, the maps that Brian Reid makes... (A DEC person "ought to"
make postscript files a DEC product can use ...)

I realize I haven't tracked down all the factors of that problem.  But, I do
like dxpsview, it does work well.  It's the only DECwindows application
that I regularly use.
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