Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 09:34:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: previewer Message-ID: <19971022093440.10538@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199710212010.NAA07325@athena.tera.com>; from Gary Kline on Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 01:10:52PM -0700 References: <199710212010.NAA07325@athena.tera.com>
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On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 01:10:52PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > The other day when my wife asked me to make up a mailing > sheet (with a large, bold font) it took me 4 or 5 tries > to get it right. I used enscript to get the bold font > in landscape mode. > > My wife asked why I didn't just ``preview'' how the page > would appear and when I said that there was no easy way > to do she, she was upset. > > On the Apple Macs, I believe that you could preview an > output more than a decade ago; and currently, under dos > there are any number of tools to do this. Is there any > way of previewing a postscript file using ghostscript or > ghostview? Maybe a tk/tcl wrapper around enscript or > a2ps that would let you see....and *then* print? Or is > there a graphic tool in the ports stuff that I need to > retrieve? Well, it would have helped if you had said what you want to preview. If it's PostScript, you can use Ghostview, which I do all the time. If it's something else, I can't guess what. Come on, why don't you tell us? Greg
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