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From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Request for Display PostScript Utility
Summary: pageview and ditview do this
Keywords: PostScript, DWB 3.1 1, Display PostScript, X Windows
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.145111.13637@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 14:51:11 GMT
References: <663@seqp4.UUCP>
Followup-To: comp.text
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <663@seqp4.UUCP>, mcmullen@seqp4.ORG (Jim McMullen) writes:
> We (Sequoia Systems) are installing Documentor's Workbench 3.1
> and want (would like to?) to bring up the PostScript previewer
> mentioned in the promo literature.  I looked through the 
> accompanying AT&T  documentation and could not find any mention
> of this component, which lead me to believe that the PostScript
> previewer like the PostScript laser printer is a user responsibility.
> 
> OK, I am taking responsbility.  My question to the comp.text and
> comp.lang.postscript communities is:  "Is there a commercially
> available PostScript previewer that can divert troff/postscript
> output to an X Open Look Window?"


Gee, thought I'd answered this one--
pageview from Sun is a PostScript previewer, thus:
        troff ... | dpost | pageview
On the X11R4 tape is a program called ditview we may
include in future DWB releases, thus:
        troff -TX75 ... | ditview
Internally (in AT&T) we have a PostScript interpreter for
the blit-type terminals (5620, 630 and 730) that a lot of
people use.