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From: choinski@primerd.prime.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Using a postscript printer for prev
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Date: 12 Dec 89 18:12:00 GMT
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Nf-From: primerd.prime.com!choinski    Dec 12 13:12:00 1989


||It seems like it might be possible, in principle, to get a cheap and
||accurate postscript previewer given you already have postscript in a
||printer.

The hell with any pre-viewers!   Does anyone out there have a postscript
lexer?  I've just about had it with sending a large PS file to the
printer and find the entire job flushed because I misspelled "setgray".
And of course, it only reports one error at a time, so any additional
problems are found ONE AT A TIME!

A PS-lexer would be great, and having a syntax checker as well would
be optimal.  I don't need a full pre-viewer, just something to catch
simple errors.  I can handle the semantic problems when I see the
output.

Anyone have something that will do?  

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 Burton Choinski                                       choinski@env.prime.com
   Prime Computer, Inc.                                  (508) 879-2960 x3233
   Framingham, Ma.  01701
 Disclaimer:  Hey, not me man; musta been my evil twin.
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