needed: working psview / dvi2ps

[Mark Callow]

In article <564 at chem.ucsd.EDU>, tps at chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch) writes:
> Yes, the previewer does just fine with the postscript, but it does not have
> the features that are given in the man page.  Specifically, it will
> not read input from stdin, regardless of whether you invoke it as
> "psview <file.ps" or "psview - <file.ps".  "say" is supposed to
> work on stdin as well when invoked as "say -P":  it doesn't.
In IRIX 3.2, psview reads from stdin if no file is specified.   I
frequently use the command line
	psroff -me xyz.me | psview -F
to preview documents.  (-F gives me a page sized window so I don't have
to stretch it out).

say does work on standard input.  You have to have a null string at the
end as indicated in the man page.
> 
> Is there any way to get a postscript file to be executed in a window?
> "psh" works on stdin (thankfully), but it just writes on the background --
> you have to move all your other windows out of the way and damage is
> not repaired.
psview is your best bet.
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