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From: sgilley@cbnewsl.att.com (The Idealistic Cynic)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Help!  Need help with getting a working PS Previewer
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.202058.11576@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 28 Sep 90 20:20:58 GMT
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Organization: AT&T, Piscataway, New Jersey
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Summary: Need help with Xps or Ghostscript or Psroff

I hate to do this, but I need a postscript previewer for X11R4.
The system I'm on is a Sun Sparcstation 1+.

I've gotten copies of Xps, Ghostscript, and Psroff.

Xps and Ghostscript have the same basic problem -- the font,
when printed onscreen, is basically unreadable.  With GS,
the only font I can get to work is ugly_r.gsf -- the
others that are supplied all produce errors.

But I thought, fine, I'll get a copy of Psroff -- I knew that
Psroff was supposed to convert troff output to ditroff output,
and X supplys a couple of different ditroff previewers.  So
I did, but while it seems to produce postscript output
just fine, it produces nothing but what I assume are header
lines with the ditroff output.  (I had a problem with the
file "dit2catwid.c"  it compiled fine, but dumped core when run.
I think that I fixed it, but not know much of what it is supposed
to do, I can only hope.)

So will some kind soul *please* help me?  I've spent days on this
with no results.

(yes, I know about pageview -- in fact, that's the clarity I'm
shooting for.  But pageview doesn't work under X11R4, and tvtwm
doesn't work under the xnews server.)

Sean.

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