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From: spage@cup.portal.com (S spage Page)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript Previewer
Message-ID: <14809@cup.portal.com>
Date: 19 Feb 89 00:59:32 GMT
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Buy Sun's NeWS for $100.  It's a separate window system built around the
PostScript language and imaging model.  At a minimum, previewing PostScript
consists of creating a window and directing PostScript to it.  I wrote the
original psview (no flames please!) in a day, and the source to it and
other programs is provided.  NeWS' PostScript implementation is good enough
to preview most code you write; previewing machine-generated PostScript
sometimes requires editing %%Prolog sections.

NeWS doesn't run *under* SunView, it's another window system.  But you can
run NeWS *over* SunView using `overview`(1), or run SunView tools on top of
the NeWS desktop.  And if you have a multiple plane group display machine
such as a 3/60 or 4/110, you can set up to run both "side-by-side" on the
same monitor using `adjacentscreens`(1).  (Some day X11/NeWS/View2 will
co-exist fully.)

See comp.windows.news for more information on NeWS.  You could save a lot of
paper by typing "executive" to a window system instead of a printer!

=S Page,		GO Corporation