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From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Replies to: "Postscript previewer for Sun running X?"
Keywords: x postscript
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Date: 19 Jul 90 21:44:21 GMT
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>    enhancements for it.  (The file name is contrib/xps.tar.Z)

"ralpage" below is a later version of "xps".  First there was xps, then
there was xps + great jgm mods.  Many of the jgm mods are incorporated into
the recent "ralpage" release -- I advocate starting from there, as things
are more coherent, the makefile works, and it has a suntools driver.

A couple of things are missing from the recent "ralpage", though -- the
definitions for U.S. paper sizes that jgm added (like "letter") aren't there
in the distributed psrc, and there isn't a statusdict.  I was about to write
my own statusdict when some kind soul posted one, which I reused.  I find that
ralpage displays most PostScript files now, including enscript and Frame files.

>    I know of two -- `postscript', by Crispin Goswell

"POSTSCRIPT" was another of the names that "ralpage" now supercedes.

>, and ghostscript from GNU.

which I tried a number of times, and never got anything but core files.

>    The former was developed on a sun, the latter on DOS...

DOS, eh?  That explains it..

>    I have source for a PD program called ralpage which runs under
..
>    deficiencies namely not being able to view ps files generated by
>    TeX.

I can't test it, but I theorize that the deficiency might be with statusdict,
as I mentioned above.

>    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.

The "ralpage" incarnation, with jgm work, is much better.  "xps" wasn't good
enough for me to announce to my users, but "ralpage" is, and I have.


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