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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: Viewing Postscript on X
Message-ID: <90Aug14.233825edt.741@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Keywords: Postscript, PS
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <8100@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 15 Aug 90 03:39:16 GMT
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ssdken@watson.Claremont.EDU (Ken Nelson) writes:
>I have tried xps, but it doesn't work too well.  Are 
>there any other tools (PD or commercial) that allow me to view
>Postscript files under X11R4??

xps users will probably find ralpage
(expo.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/ralpage.tar.Z) a significant step up.  On a
DS3100, I found it faster than dxpsview (the Display PS based
thingmajig) for the demos I tried.

Note that using a PostScript previewer to preview either TeX or troff
output (which is frequently what people ask for PS previewers for) is
not a good idea unless you have embedded PostScript in the document.
Specialized TeX or troff previewers invariably do a better job. (xdvi,
xtex or xditview, xproof, xtroff).

	Mark.