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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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