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In-Reply-To: dave@array.teracorp.com's message of Tue, 3 Dec 1996 17:05:18 -0500
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The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.

>>>>> "David" == David Bakhash <dave@array.teracorp.com> writes:

David> In XEmacs 19.14 [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.4) of Sat Jun 22 1996 on xemacs

David> I tried the postscript mode in an X environment, and found that
David> it never rendered the .ps file when I C-c C-c'd the file.  Is
David> it supposed to make an image appear?  I gave it more than
David> enough time.

By default the command `gs -' is called with standard input being
taken from the postscript buffer.  The version of gs (Ghostscript
2.6.2 (4/19/95)) I have installed doesn't appear to like that very
much.  It displays the image and disappears instantly.  Do you have
ImageMagick available?  Try this:

(setq ps-postscript-command '("display" "-"))

Instead of disappearing quickly, the image remains displayed until you
select quit.

(setq ps-postscript-command '("xv" "-"))
appears to work as well.

Hmmm.  Perhaps we should change the default on that.  Is there anyone
who successfully uses `gs' _for screen display only_ in this package
and who doesn't have either xv or ImageMagick also available?
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