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From: franco@bbn.com (Frank A. Lonigro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.x
Subject: PostScript previewer to view Mac PostScript files.
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Date: 13 Feb 89 21:11:49 GMT
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Hi:
	I need a PostScript previewer to view the PostScript files produced
on the Mac with the "clover-f or clover-k" command keys.  I need a
PostScript previewer that works on a VaxStation2000 running X11R3 and
hopefully supports 4 planes of color.

	I currently have this package from edmoy@violet.Berkeley.EDU called
MacPS which takes a PostScript file from the Mac and allows me to convert
it so I can print the file from my unix machine to my postscript printer.
This works just fine and the output to the printer is perfect and is as if
I printed it directly from my Mac through the AppleTalk.  But I would like
to view these converted PostScript files on my VaxStations color screen without
sending them to the printer.

	Does anyone know how I can do this?

Thanks in advance,
-franco

PS.  I'm running Ultrix3.0 on my VaxStation2000 with DECWindows included and
the "dxpsview" program complains that it doesn't know about the command
"serverdict" which is in the converted PostScript file produced by MacPS, so
"dxpsview" won't work.  What I don't understand is that the printer can print
the file and understand all the PostScript commands that are in the file, but
the dxpsview'er doesn't understand all the commands.  Isn't the pspreviewer
suposed to be a complete PostScript interpreter?  Just curious!

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