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From: phri!roy@philabs.philips.com (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: PostScript Previewers for Sunview
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Date: 22 Feb 89 02:53:49 GMT
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Original-Date: 11 Feb 89 01:43:32 GMT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 162, message 8 of 11

dclassen@vulture.bcm.tmc.edu writes (in Volume 7, Issue 149, message 8 of 13):
> I am looking for a PostScript previewer for SunView [...] I know about NeWS

At the NeWS tutorial at the recent USENIX, a neat NeWS hack was mentioned
call ps2bits.  The general idea is that you run the regular NeWS server
but give it a special init file which makes it produce a raster file on
output instead of running a window system.  I havn't had a chance to play
with it yet, but it seems like it would be straight-forward to write an
application of the psview flavor which takes your PostScript document,
feeds it through ps2bits and then pr_load()s the resulting raster file(s)
into a suntools window.

I believe the source for ps2bits is available from the news archive server
at sun; send mail to "archive-server@sun.com" with a subject of "help" to
get started.  I'm doing this from memory, so I may have botched some of
the details, but it's essentially correct.

Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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