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From: dab@ubitrex.mb.ca (Danny Boulet)
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Subject: Re: Looking for a postscript page viewer
Keywords: postscript
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Date: 14 Jun 91 14:52:00 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.205654.27616@cci632.cci.com> sz@cci632.cci.com (Stephen Zehl) writes:
>
>	I've been trying to use pageview to display b&w and color postscript
>files generated by Island Write.  Whenever I generate a document greater than
>one page in length, pageview displays all the pages at once. 
>
>	I'd like to find another postscript viewer to determine if it's 
>pageview or Island that is the problem.  Or find someone who has seen this 
>problem before and possibly knows of a solution.
>
>	If you know what the problem is, or can point me in the direction of
>an FTP site with a postscript viewer, please send me e-mail at the address
>below.  Thanks.
>
>					Steve.

pageview suffers from quite a few problems although we've never run into
this one.  If anybody knows of any commercial quality postscript viewers,
please post.

Steve:  You might have a look at ghostscript, a GNU tool available from
lots of places.  It isn't exactly commercial quality but it may solve
your problem (it isn't stable enough to solve ours).

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