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From: beck@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Document previewing using Xps
Message-ID: <1898@svax.cs.cornell.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 87 13:25:54 GMT
Reply-To: beck@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY
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In article <6224@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> shipley@web1d.berkeley.edu () writes
on the subject of troff previewing under X:

>The other thing to try is some version of TROFF which can speak PostScript(tm)
>which you can then feed through one of the several Xps programs floating
>around -- these are PostScript(tm) interpreter/previewers for Xwindows.

I've not been very successful in getting Goswell's Xps to preview documents.
The Postscript file generated from TeX DVI files by dvi2ps and from Ditroff
files by the Transcript psdit program both cause it to choke, although in
different ways.

Is anyone using Xps successfully for TeX or Ditroff previewing?  Is there some
trick?

Micah Beck
Cornell Dept of Computer Science
beck@svax.cs.cornell.edu