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From: toppin@melpar.UUCP (Doug Toppin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Replies to: "Postscript previewer for Sun running X?"
Keywords: x postscript
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Date: 18 Jul 90 13:37:34 GMT
Organization: E-Systems, Melpar Division, Falls Church, VA
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I recently posted a question asking for Postscript previewers
for the Sun running X. Here are the responses I got:
Doug Toppin
uunet!melpar!toppin

#1)
    xps is available via anonymous ftp from expo.lcs.mit.edu.  It has
    some deficiencies, but it works pretty well.  I am working on some
    enhancements for it.  (The file name is contrib/xps.tar.Z)
    Tim Theisen   uwvax!tim
    
#2)
    I know of two -- `postscript', by Crispin Goswell, and ghostscript from GNU.
    The former was developed on a sun, the latter on DOS...
    Both are free, and in the archives.
    Liam R. E. Quin,  lee@sq.com, {utai,utzoo}!sq!lee,  SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
    
#3)
    I have source for a PD program called ralpage which runs under
    Sunview and X. It is an excellent program but does have some
    deficiencies namely not being able to view ps files generated by
    TeX. If this minor inconvenience doesn't annoy you then you may be
    happy with this. You also can't beat the price :-)
    David     uunet!jtsv16!geac!ists!nereid.sal.ists.ca!anthony
    
#4)
    xps is available from most places that have X code.  It works for
    most things, but I have had a lot of things not work correctly.
    There is also a program called ghostscript available from the
    GNU folks that is supposed to work okay with postscript files.
    Those are the only things that I know of.