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Re: Reading Postscript Files

Vincent Predoehl wrote:

> Hello, how can I read a Postscript file on Darwin [or MacOS X]?
>
> --
> Vincent
> ...

Do you mean "can I read a Postscript file on Darwin [or MacOS
X]" as text? Certainly. :-)
If, as I suspect is the case, you want to know if you can view
a PostScript file on your screen in much the same way as it would
be printed by a PostScript printer (the way we used to do so easily
on OPENSTEP and NEXTSTEP), the answer is more complicated.
Fortunately, since "the world" is moving to PDF, this will be a
diminishing issue. (I'm a scientist, so I do find that most of my
colleagues publish preprints in PostScript, usually from TeX
[including the many variations using pre-run macros]. However,
even if many of them have yet to make the switch themselves, at
least some of the preprint repositories [like lanl], that take
preprints in TeX source form, have provided a means whereby PDF
versions can be generated on demand [which, actually, I prefer,
even on my NeXTstation, since they don't use the bitmapped
Metafonts].)
Unfortunately, I don't know of any especially good solutions,
at this time. However, even though one potential solution (that
has undoubtedly been expressed) is to simply port GhostScript, a
better solution (IMO) is to either port a PostScript to PDF
converter (I think there is a GhostScript like version), or take
GhostScript, ripping out its implementation of the low level
PostScript primitives (at the path level, not down at the line
segment level), and replace them with calls to the CoreGraphics
system (at least for Mac OS X).

I hope you are able to find a good solution.

David email@hidden

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