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From: andrew@ist.CO.UK (Andrew Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript pre-viewer using VT100 terminal?
Message-ID: <2781@istop.ist.CO.UK>
Date: 3 May 90 10:38:39 GMT
References: <204@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London, UK
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From article <204@keele.keele.ac.uk>, by yufan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Yufan Hu):
> Could anyone please tell me how to pre-view a PostScript file
> on a VT100 terminal before it is printed?
> --
Do you mean a VT1000 terminal? If you really do want to preview a Postscript
file on a VT100 then unfortunately you will be disappointed. The VT100 is a
textmode only terminal, so displaying graphics will be impossible. There are
some VT100 compatible terminals with a graphics mode though. If you have one
of these you could use a postscript interpreter running on your host to
dump it's framebuffer to a file. Then all you need is a utility to display the
bitmap on your terminal. 

If you have a VT1000 then you can use an X-Windows based previewer. I belive 
DEC either is or will be marketing one.