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From: mth@cci632.UUCP (Michael Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: X11 bitmap viewer
Message-ID: <32967@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 90 20:07:23 GMT
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Organization: CCI, Communications Systems Division, Rochester, NY
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Our engineering and manufacturing departments use Mentor Graphics
tools for CAE/CAD and documentation.  Our mfg. department is 
creating Manufacturing Assembly Instructions (MAI's) using DOC.
They would like the workers on the mfg. floor to be able to pull
up these MAI's on terminals in their areas. 

Unfortunately, Mentor does not provide and type of low-cost read-only 
station that we could use for this purpose.  I was thinking that
by purchasing the Postscript print driver we could plot documents and 
graphics to Postscript image files, use the PBM+ filters to convert
these files to X11 bitmap files and use X-terminals on the floor to
view them....    

I'd like to know what X programs I can use to view X11 bitmap files.  
We don't have SR10.2 yet (Mentor won't ship it until release 8.0 of
their software [April]), but we have a DN2500 in for evaluation from
Apollo and I'd like to try this out while we have it here.   

Also - anyone used an Apollo machine as a server for an X-terminal???  

Please correct any misunderstandings I may have about X - I'm not
very familiar with it yet....

Thanks in advance...

Michael Hickman
CAE/CAD System Administrator
Computer Consoles, Inc.
Rochester, NY