Thanks for all the help:
"Partin, Kevin S" <Kevin.Partin_at_SW.Boeing.com>
Lucio Chiappetti <lucio_at_ifctr.mi.cnr.it>
Serge Munhoven <Serge.Munhoven_at_mema.ucl.ac.be>
Joe Fletcher <joe_at_meng.ucl.ac.uk>
"Kevin Oberman" <oberman_at_es.net>
"Saltiel, Kenny" <Kenny_Saltiel_at_icomverse.com>
"richard n. frank" <rnfrank_at_wolfram.llnl.gov>
claudia burg <claudia.burg_at_asu.edu>
Christian_Mnch <cristian_at_tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
Although I have not successfully compiled Xaw3d or MGv yet, I wanted
to send the summary since others may be interested (and much
more capable)
Many suggested MGv found at:
http://www.trends.net/~mu
Also:
ghostscript
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
gv
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
xfig (also allows editing)
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/drawing_tools/xfig/
Others use DEC progams:
dxvdoc -f ps filename.
(The only problem with these is that they don't print out chosen pages.
I am sure that, although claims of environmentalism abound, the easiest
path will be to always print out the entire document.Brian)
For what concerns things like extracting a few pages from an existing
document, or putting two document pages onto one printed page (2-up) etc.
I
use Angus McDuggan psutils (ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk in /pub/ajcd/psutils.tar.Z)
I can psselect a few pages and lpr (print) normally the resulting
document.
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Other useful information from helpful people:
The psutils rely on Adobe DSC compliance, so sometimes they may fail.
On the other hand dxvdoc is quite robust and is a nice way to look at a ps
document. It's more robust than the general ghostview I've seen around. I
never bothered to install ghostview on my Alphas (although colleagues here
have it on the Suns). Ghostview is particularly reluctant to handle
MS-produced postscript, which dxvdoc happily handles (on the other hand
gsview, which should be the Ghostview for Windows NT, is more robust, and
I
use it sometimes on an NT box to produce EPS from PS).
dxvdoc renders quite nicely (via X display postscript) the native ps
fonts.
If it encounters fonts defined in the document like Latex does, it may not
display them so nicely (unless you use a magnification factor 1.5 or
greater).
If it encounters fonts it does not know, it replaces them with a Courier
font.
What you see is then not exactly what you print.
I am also using the venerable 3000/400 hardware. If you
simply 2xclick on the .ps file from a file manager window
the pda viewer will start and display postscript. Print by
lp -d a_postscript_printer with mx#0 in the printcap.
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Original Message:
We have several users who generate post script files and
like to print portions during editting. We are using
an archaic version of ghostview 1.5, I think. As
we upgrade I have tried to compile Xaw3d in order to
install the newer version of ghostview to no avail. The
Xaw3d will not build. Our running version is quite
finicky, randomly failing on newer files(actually
I'm sure it's not random).
My question is more general. What are people using to view
and print pieces of post script files?
Thanks, and I will summarize. I searched the archives on
gv and Xaw3d and found that someone successfully compiled
both. Just trying to find the path of least effort.
DEC 3000 model 300 running DU4.0B with big patch installed.
Thanks,
Brian Hinderliter
Graduate Student
Received on Tue Jul 13 1999 - 13:29:29 NZST