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From: msc@ramoth.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: PostScript previewing [WAS: GIF to SGI...?]
Keywords: psh, psview, PostScript, Display PostScript
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Date: 7 Sep 89 23:24:08 GMT
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In article <453@alias.UUCP>, rae%alias@csri.utoronto.ca (Reid Ellis) writes:
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> 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!
> 

psview can display images.  The problem is that most of the programs
that send PostScript images use some pretty gross code that expects
the image data to be coming in on "currentfile".  Because psview reads
all the data into a temporary file so that it can page around it, the
object that "currentfile" returns is not what these programs expect.
If you put the data into an array psview will display it just fine.

	-Mark