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From: ramon@skye.mit.edu (Ramon F Herrera)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PS Viewer for the Macintosh
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.182054.24042@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 90 18:20:54 GMT
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Bengt Lidgard (f85-bli@dront.nada.kth.se) asks:

> This QUESTION or similar has been around for some time but I have never
> seen an answer to it.

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> //      Is there such thing as a PostScript-viewer on Macintosh???
> //
> //
> //

I have seen 2 PS Viewers for the Macintosh.  One of them is public
domain and can be FTP'd from info-mac/util at sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Its name is PseudoPS and it is very primitive.

The other one is a commercial product called PostShow. I had the
opportunity to try version 1.0. Their current release is 1.1.
They tell me that they have 2 versions, one at $224.95 and a
Pro version with more fonts and other features at $294.90.
The company is:

	Lincoln & Co.
	29 Domino Drive
	Concord, MA 01742
	(508) 369-1441

With the version that I tried, I was able to do very simple
stuff, such as displaying a table with sorrounding boxes, but
I couldn't do any graphics, except for the example that came
with the program.  What I did was to use the command-F trick
to capture several Mac PS files to which I added the Laser Prep
using the program 'macps' (also available at sumex-aim, under unix).
These files printed fine on a LaserWriter and a QMS connected
to Unix computers.

I have also tried the DECwindows PostScript Previewer 'dxpsview'
that comes with the DECstations and I also have had more failures
than successes.

The bottom line is that I have yet to see a program that will
take an arbitrary PS document printable by say, the Apple
LaserWriter, and display it on a screen.

Ramon Herrera