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From: susan@gnome7.pa.dec.com (Susan Angebranndt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Postscript Previewer?
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Date: 12 Aug 89 22:16:55 GMT
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	I tried dxpsview to preview the file "icccm.ps" I 
	downloaded from xstuff@expo.lcs.mit.edu, and it gave up on 
	one of the very first postscript instructions (and happily 
	ignoring the rest of the file). The file prints very well, 
	however.

	The offending command was "framedevice".

Fixed in the next release (UWS2.2).  The problem is that the Previewer is
a PostScript emulator, not a printer emulator.  "framedevice" is defined
differently for every printer, and not at all for the current previewer.

The quick fix is to add
	/framedevice {pop pop pop pop} def
to the prologue for icccm.ps (put it right after %%EndComments).

Susan Angebranndt
susan@decwrl.dec.com