Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!umn-d-ub!rutgers!att!alberta!ubc-cs!fornax!stevec From: stevec@fornax.UUCP (Steve Cumming) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: dvi2ps on NeXT Summary: I suggest VorTeX dvitool Message-ID: <857@fornax.UUCP> Date: 26 Jan 89 02:06:25 GMT References: <17821@gatech.edu> <6308@polya.Stanford.EDU> Lines: 40 In article <6308@polya.Stanford.EDU>, ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer) writes: > In article <17821@gatech.edu> gil@gatech.edu (Gil Neiger) writes: > >Can NeXT use the output of dvi2ps? How can such a postscript file be > >printed (on the NeXT printer)? Can it be previewed (yet)? > > Turns out yes, and with not much difficulty. I just played with it some, [deleted] > To preview the output of dvi2ps, you really need > a page-oriented previewer. (My little Yap just doesn't cut it; > it's good for more interactive Postscript use.) A page-oriented > previewer will probably be included in the 0.9 Demos directory. > > Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support > aozer@NeXT.com I seriously suggest that NeXT consider geting access to the VorTeX projects dvitool. It is superior previewer. Now before anyone jumps on me, let me qualfy that. It only works for TeX dvi files. But if TeX is what you want to work with, that is the correct way to go. It's redundant to turn TeX .dvi files into horriffic postscript with scads of downloaded fonts, and then hope that some poor little screen previewer can deal with it. None will be able to. I imagine that a deal could be struck with Berkeley... Just a suggestion... Are you listening, NeXT? -- Steve Cumming stevec@lccr.cs.sfu.ca {uunet|...}!ubc-cs!fornax!stevec School of CS SFU (604) 291-4399 The International Party Vancouver, CDN shall be the human race.