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From: cameron@cs.flinders.oz.au (Cameron Humphries)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Reverse video/Previewing documents
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Date: 22 Oct 90 12:27:45 GMT
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Hi.

I am almost ready to release Andrew on the other members of staff however
before that happens I need to know whether it is possible to make an ATK
application appear in reverse video?

Also the question of previewing documents. I am using a program called psroff
to format documents. psroff translates troff to PostScript. I have a couple of
PostScript previewers however they require the user to "hit return" to go onto
the next page from inside the typescript window they were invoked in (that
sentence was a bit odd). This makes them inappropriate for use as a previewer
unless I make use of temporary files and start up a typescript window (or
something similar). Now for the question, is anyone else using psroff to
format and has already discovered a preview method. If not, I will have to use
the band-aid method described above and start hacking at one of the current
PostScript previewers that I have access to (believe me, hack is the right
word - just take one look at the code).

Thanks.
-Cameron

Cameron Humphries
Discipline of Computer Science                 email: cameron@cs.flinders.oz.au
School of Information Science and Technology   phone: +61 +8 201 2874
The Flinders University of South Australia     fax  : +61 +8 201 2904