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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Postscript Previewing?
Keywords: postscript, preview
Message-ID: <6104@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Jan 89 16:45:40 GMT
References: <16435@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1485@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: aozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer)
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In article <1485@mace.cc.purdue.edu> abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) writes:
>There is source code for an application in Programming/Demos, called Yap,
>that will display an arbitrary PostScript file.  It opens en editor window
>on the PostScript source, too, allowing you to change the source as you are
>viewing its interpretation.

The source is in /MyDisk/Programming/Examples, and the executable is in
/MyDisk/Programming/Demos. Unfortunately, Yap isn't suitable for
previewing the output of programs such as TeX, word processors, CAD
programs, etc. Yap doesn't know about bounding boxes, and nor does it know
how to deal with multiple page documents.

Yap, however, is good enough for previewing short Postscript code. Most
people spend a few hours/days with the Adobe "Blue" book and Yap while
learning Postscript; it's highly-interactive nature makes it suitable
for such a purpose.

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com