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From: spage@cup.portal.com (S spage Page)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript previewer for Sunview
Message-ID: <17479@cup.portal.com>
Date: 22 Apr 89 11:45:26 GMT
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If you own a Sun workstation and are remotely interested in PostScript,

	BUY NeWS 1.1 for $100!

It's a separate window system from SunView 1, but it coexists reasonably
well and its native imaging model and communication protocol is PostScript.
You get a zillion and one bitmap fonts, a OOP class system written in
PostScript (!), thousands of lines of PostScript code, and a bunch of useful
utilities.  Working with PostScript code in NeWS is simple:

To preview PostScript, just create a window and feed it PostScript.

To create a Sun rasterfile of PostScript code, create a window, feed it
PostScript, then execute the `writecanvas' operator.

To develop and debug PostScript, connect to the server in a terminal window
and start typing PostScript.

The good folks in comp.windows.news have written programs for all these
tasks.


While I'm here, can anyone comment on using NeWS/2 running on OS/2 as a 
PostScript development environment?  How about ghostscript on a PC?  I can't
use LaserTalk or other tools which hook up to a printer because mine is on the
other side of a Novell network.

I'm biased, I wrote window manuals for Sun.  But I still miss NeWS.

=S