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From: lemay@lorelei.Sun.COM (Laura Lemay)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Request for Postscript display for a Sun
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Date: 15 Aug 89 22:07:27 GMT
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>>Does anybody know a site to ftp code for displaying Postscript
>>programs on a Sun graphics display?

>Get NeWS -- it's a complete desktop system based on Display PostScript.
>With that, using the command 'psh' will give you good PS debugging.
>Don't know exactly where to get it, because I can't seem to recall if it's 
>proprietary or not -- you may have to talk to Adobe ...


NeWS is neat.  Yes, it is proprietary, but its really whizzy and the
wave of future windowing systems  (ok, I'm helping document it, so
I'm a little biased.)

It has all sorts of display postscript features, including dumping
postscript files to the screen, as well as running the psh (short for PostScript
Shell) interactively (yes, interactively), so you can type

newpath
0 0 moveto
500 500 lineto
stroke

and you'll get that line instantly on your screen!  (well, I was amazed,
having worked with hope-and-prayer printing up to that point).

I don't know how much NeWS costs, and I'm not even sure who to ask about
it, since I'm just a lowly tech writer, and a new employee no less, but
I can't see working with PS any other way now.


The above is *my* opinion!  Please don't fire me!

-Laura Lemay			lemay%lorelei@sun.com
Redhead.  Drummer.  Geek.