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From: kjc@and.cs.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Looking for Postscript Interpreter
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.210046.115@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Jun 91 21:00:46 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.163355.18090@colorado.edu>
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In article <1991Jun10.163355.18090@colorado.edu>, wightman@spot.Colorado.EDU (WIGHTMAN MICHAEL P) writes:
> We have a number of HP9000 Series 300 machines running HP-UX 7.05, and we have
> a number of applications which are generating postscript output.  Unfortunately
> not all of the applications allow pre-viewing of their output on the screen.
> Hence we spend a lot of time printing large postscript files, possibly
> unecessarily.
> 
> I recently came across a Postscript Interpreter, written by Crisping Goswell,
> which was posted to comp.sources.unix.  This package seems to provide a very
> nice postscript interpreter, and also provides support for X11 pre-viewing.
> My question is, has anyone gone to the trouble of getting this running on an
> HP9000 ?  All of the documentation talks to running on Suns (2 & 3) under
> suntools.  Anyone aware of this program (or others) which are running under
> HP-UX ??
> 
> ---
> Scott Pinkerton
> spinkert@copper.denver.colorado.edu

I think the package you refer to is called xps - its OK but is pretty old now.
We used it for a while but we now prefer Ghostscript (GNU Postscript) -
Ghostscript handles Postscript files that use to break xps. Ghostscript will
allow you to preview your files under X11 and there's even a filter to convert
Postscript to LaserJet output.

Ghostscript is available via ftp from many archive sites such as uunet.uu.net
usually under the pub/gnu directory (or similar). From memory it compiles
under HP-UX without too much (if any) difficulty.

Regards,

Kenny Chan

email: kjc@uk.ac.liv.cs.and

postal: Kenneth Chan
        Computer Science Department
        University Of Liverpool
        PO Box 147
        Liverpool
        L69 3BX.