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From: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Displaying mac postscript stuff
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Date: 21 Mar 90 13:16:15 GMT
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   I have come to the conclution that the SGI (and for that matter SUN's
too) psview is brain dead.  psview seems to work on only EXTREMELY simple
PostScript files.  I have taken TeX files, TeX'ed them, then dvi2ps'ed
them and nothing happens with psview.  I have taken some PostScript files
that I created from scratch and nothing happens.  VERY simple files have
worked or almost worked.  The PostScript "image" command doesn't work
correctly.  psview ignores the "image" transformation matrix completly.
All of the files I have tried print out fine on our Apple laser printer
and our NEC 890 laser printer.
   I would say give up on trying to use psview, at least until someone
makes one that works.
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	Brent L. Bates
	NASA-Langley Research Center
	M.S. 361
	Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
	(804) 864-2854
	E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov