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From: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Postscript in an X window
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.044424.10392@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Jun 91 04:44:24 GMT
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In article <756@scubed.SCUBED.COM>, warner@scubed.com (Ken Warner) writes:
|> Is there any product or tool or PDS that will display Postscript in an
|> X window?  What I mean is, if I have a Postscript description of an image or
|> page of text, how can I interpret the Postscript and show the results of that
|> interpretation in an X window?
|> 
|> How do you do 'dat?
|> 
This is one of the popular FAQ item, so please check it.  However, I post this
follow-up for one reason, I am not satisfied with existing no-cost PostScript
previewers, eg, ghostscript v2.21, xps etc.  I have built all of them for our
SUN SPARCs, DEC 3100s, IBM RISC 6000s (YES, gs v2.21 can be easily ported to
this guy too :-) but when I compare their performance with SUN's PageView, there
is simply no comparision!  The later is *blazingly fast*!!!!   And most of the
time I am on a RISC 6000 320 which can easily beat the pants of a SUN SPARC 2!

However, I have built SeeTeX v 2.17.2 for all our platforms, and I am pleased
by it's performance, even though appearance is still nowhere close PageView's
output.  But for scientific paper proofing/previewing, the speed is very good.

So, unless it's for pictures/graphics designs, I think no fee DVI previewers are 
much better.  However, if your needs are beyond such and you don't want to pay money for a commerical product, well, get a faster machines (more costly) Sigh..

Sincerely,

Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin@leland.stanford.edu