Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!pucc!NMKATZ
From: NMKATZ@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Nicholas M. Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Eagle, Yap, and pft
Message-ID: <8557@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 4 Jun 89 05:10:36 GMT
References: <6545@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <9640@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: NMKATZ@pucc.Princeton.EDU
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
Lines: 25
Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article

In a recent posting, Ali Ozer wrote
>A better way to use pft might be to run an existing stand-alone PostScript
>program like eagle without having to go through Yap... Then you simply
>do
>pft -f amovie.ps
>Oh, one more thing which might bite you when playing with PostScript:
>File names to PS operators like "run" or file arguments to "pft -f" usually
>need to be fully specified; because the server isn't connected to the directory
>you are in, relative path names usually won't work.
   Many thanks to Ali for letting us know about pft. By adding the three lines h
     /myWin 0 0 800 800 Retained window def
     Above 0 myWin orderwindow
    myWin windowdeviceround
to the beginning of my baby postscript programs, right after the top line
     %!
I just type
   pft -f myfile
in a shell window, where "myfile" is the above-modification of the postscript
program in question (the one I used to watch happen in 0.8 Yap), and now I watc
h it happen once again, happy as a clam. Of course, one could automate the inse
rtion of the three lines above with a little shell script...but for now, just a
 big thank you to Ali.
   By the way, would it be possible in 1.0 Yap to give the user a choice betwee
n running it the "0.8 way" or the "0.9 way"?
               Nick Katz   nmkatz@pucc