Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: previewer for troff or postscript Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 90 17:03:37 GMT References: <1990Feb16.171236.3220@ICS.COM> <90Feb15.001555est.643@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <8167@chaph.usc.edu> <2822@bacchus.dec.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Distribution: na Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 18 In-reply-to: kent@wsl.dec.com's message of 19 Feb 90 19:42:42 GMT In article <2822@bacchus.dec.com> kent@wsl.dec.com (Christopher A. Kent) writes: | And I'll put in my standard plug for the PostScript previewer that's | available on DEC workstations with UWS2.1 or UWS2.2. Real PostScript by | Adobe, with real Adobe fonts. (Accept no substitutes :-) I dunno, when I went to work for OSF and have a Pmin (DECstation 2100) on my desk, I was seriously underwhelmed by Dec's postscript program (dxpsview). I was trying to proof a document created by eroff, and found the normal fonts were unreadable, and the bold fonts did not get printed on my screen at all. Another misfeature is not taking input on pipes. I finally went back to proofing the old fashioned way by either printing out the documents, or by using nroff piped into less. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so