Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: How to display a postscript file in X windows? Message-ID: Date: 8 Oct 90 21:53:31 GMT References: <9010062230.AA07219@hitchcock.eng.uiowa.edu> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 15 In-reply-to: yiannis@HITCHCOCK.ENG.UIOWA.EDU's message of 6 Oct 90 22:30:24 GMT In article <9010062230.AA07219@hitchcock.eng.uiowa.edu> yiannis@HITCHCOCK.ENG.UIOWA.EDU (Yiannis Papelis) writes: BTW, has anybody managed to compile it for a PC yet? (it = ghostscript). yes, its easy and it works well. in fact, rather faster than under X. The problem with both is the rather `bare bones' interpreter offered. Its not really very suitable for eg previewing large documents. -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)