Path: utzoo!utgpu!utfyzx!alias!rae%alias
From: rae%alias@csri.utoronto.ca (Reid Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: PostScript previewing [WAS: GIF to SGI...?]
Summary: use psh, not psview, for PostScript bitmaps
Keywords: psh, psview, PostScript, Display PostScript
Message-ID: <453@alias.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 89 14:10:08 GMT
References: <8908301329.AA27741@snow-white.merit-tech.com>
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Reply-To: rae%alias@csri.utoronto.ca (Reid Ellis)
Organization: T'nir Software
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goss@SNOW-WHITE.MERIT-TECH.COM (Mike Goss) writes:
|There is a utility
|called "psview" that comes with the system which will display PostScript
|files in a window on the screen.

Be warned that psview doesn't work for bitmaps [i.e. "image"s].  However, if
you hide/stow all your windows, you can use the desktop itself via 'psh', the
PostScript shell.  Just say something like "psh<file.ps" and la voila!

						Reid
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