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From: aspgpas@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Peter Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  color postscript and psview
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.152008.7597@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Date: 20 Feb 91 15:20:08 GMT
References: <9102191238.AA28006@aero36.larc.nasa.gov> <1991Feb19.203014.1069@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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Reply-To: aspgpas@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Peter Silva)
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In article <1991Feb19.203014.1069@odin.corp.sgi.com>,
msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes:
|> In article <9102191238.AA28006@aero36.larc.nasa.gov>,
blbates@AERO36.LARC.NASA.GOV (Brent Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:
|> |> 
|> |>    The problem is that psview doesn't support images period.
|> |> 
|> Once again Mr. Bates has his facts wrong. Our version of NeWS (and therefore
|> psview) supports both the image and imagemask operators. Unfortunately the
|> implementation is not complete. The matrix argument is ignored and an
identity
|> matrix is assumed. This is good enough for many applications to get their
|> images displayed.
|> -- 

Excuse moi,  but the only time I REALLY NEED postscript is when I want to 
display some image that was, for example, created on a mac.  Invariably, when
I invoke psview on the image, the window manager dies, and I must reset the
station.  Partial support is WORSE than none at all,  how are we supposed to 
tell which .eps files will crash it and which won't ?  And further, why does
it kill the window manager at all?


Peter Silva			OS Support 
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