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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript Screen Previewers
Keywords: PostScript, Previewer, software
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Date: 9 Aug 90 13:40:47 GMT
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In article <1990Aug9.012522.3101@wolves.uucp> terry@wolves.uucp (Terry L Parker) writes:
>Goscript isn't actually a screen previewer, it is a per-processor which 
>takes Postscript files as input and prints them on non-postscript
> printers (dot matrix printers, laser printers, etc...).
>

(to the above poster: please learn to put carriage returns at the end of 
lines...)

Goscript does do "screen preview".  You can't read it, all you can do is see
where things go on a page, but do it it does. It also outputs files
that CAN be used for a real screen preview if you write a little program 
to do it.

Doug MCDonald