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From: tj@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Thomas E. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PostScript veiwer for  Suns...
Keywords: postscript view suns x11
Message-ID: <1948@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 Jul 90 14:14:34 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
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This may be old news for most of you, but I didn't know it,
so I'll share it with the few that don't.

There is a public domain postscript viewer/interpreter that
runs on Sun computers (and a few other Unix machines) under
x windows or sunview.  

I'm surprised with how well it works.  Typically, postscript
interpreters lack features such as half-tone imaging, etc.
This seems to work quite well.  It uses crummy  Hershey
fonts, but it gives a good represenation of the overall 
layout of the page.  It's not too fast, either.  On a
Sun/3 280 with FPA it shows several postscript files I have
many times faster than any  printer I've ever seen.

I found my copy through anonymous ftp of bu.edu, whichh
contains some speed enhancements from Barry Shein.  If anyone
knows of a newer version, please let me know.
If you ftp to bu.edu, look in the pub/POSTSCRIPT directory,
or something like that.

			- tj@xn.ll.mit.edu

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