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From: Miklos Somogyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 October 2005 7:53:47 PM
To: Jim Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: groff@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Groff] PS and "page background"
On 19/10/2005, at 6:07 PM, Jim Reid wrote:
On Oct 19, 2005, at 03:28, Miklos Somogyi wrote:
Bernd, thank you very much for the idea. I'll try when I'll have X
windows.
I would like to install Tiger and the the whole X environment on my
Mac, but
I wait until I am sure that Tiger and "terminal" can co-exist.
I don't understand what you're waiting for. Tiger ships wih X
windows. If the developer tools are installed, you can compile
Ghostscript. It works just fine. The Mac PDF viewer Preview works on
PostScript: it converts to PDF on the fly. It's probably a better
choice because it uses the MacOSX Quartz rendering stuff. And if
you're looking for a command-line interface, there's xterm or the Mac
Terminal or the freeware iTerm. AFAICT these all support the standard
ANSI command/escape codes.
Yes, Preview converts to PDF and is fast, I've been using it a lot.
But it does
not show diagnostics and if you have something wrong in your PS file,
it does
not display anything. No textual clue, no graphical clue as to what's
wrong.
A decent PS viewer gives you diagnostics and draws the picture
up-until the
booboo.
Yes, there is Terminal. That's what I use now. However, when Tiger
appeared on
the scene and even when its first updates were introduced, there were
many
reports that Terminal did not work.
Perhaps the latest version(s) solved the problem. When I finished the
job I am
working on now, I'll have a look, take a big breath and plunge.
Miklos
PS. I've tried to post this to Jim a few times but got it back, refused
as spam.
Miklos
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