Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!phil From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Postscript previewer under X Message-ID: <22700017@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 4 Oct 90 21:14:00 GMT References: <655046250@ Lines: 31 Nf-ID: #R: I just wonder whether there is any other postscript previewer. To me, xps is > not really good. I would like to have a better postscript previewer under X. > > Any pointers? > > Thanks in advance. I, too, and looking for just such a tool. Seems like someone who knows how will need to write one for our needs to be met. Here are features I'd like to see: 1. Ability to override the pixel size relationship, so that I can see what actual dots would be plotted on my 300dpi printer instead of what has to be plotted on my 75dpi (or whatever) X terminal. Since this would result in magnification of the image, the window should be a port to a virtual window with H and V scrollbars. 2. Both forward AND BACKWARD page buttons, to go between different pages. Bitmaps of previous pages should be kept to some specifiable maximum. 3. An option to tell the previewer to watch for the .ps file to be updated, and rerun it when it is, automatically. A rerun button should be there in either case. Additional features could have it look at other files for changes, and run programs that convert to .ps when THEY change, such as for .dvi files for TeXies. It would be nice to be able to have an edit window and a preview window, and the preview window reruns each time I make a file save from the edit window. --Phil Howard, KA9WGN-- | Individual CHOICE is fundamental to a free society | no matter what the particular issue is all about.