Hi all,
Sorry for not replying sooner.
Original mail:
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Has anyone any ideas on the following !
>
> I have a pentium PC running WFW and Reflection's X Server version 5.0 and
> I have encountered the following problem when I run an xterm client
> on Solaris 2.4 machine.
>
> At the unix prompt on the PC's xterm screen
> I get the following error when I run the /usr/openwin/bin/pageview command
>
> "No postscript interpreter (NeWS/DPS) found !"
>
> and throws me back to the shell prompt.
>
> This also occurs if I use the SUN SOLARnet Xserver also.
>
> The pageview command works OK if I execute on the SUN machine itself.
> Is there something wrong with the PC's Server to client interface.
>
> Any ideas to this would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> James.
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The responses I received to this query were excellent and it would
seem that many sun managers have come up against this shortcoming in
PC X-server software.
The general consensus was as follows:
1. There was not a problem with my PC X-server except that it cannot
handle NeWS or DPS extensions.
2. Use Alladdin's ghostview 3.51 which I've since downloaded from the
web site, compiled for Solaris 2.4 and it works fine for Postscript
display to PC's using PC X-server software.
3. And, ADOBE provide a product called ADOBE NX classic that wraps
the DPS calls on the remote
end, does the DPS interpretation, and converts it to normal X11.
sample1: (reply from Peter Samuel <Peter.Samuel@nms.otc.com.au>)
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> Nothing wrong with the PC Xservers. However, they don't support the
> NeWS (Network Extensible Windowing System) or DPS (Display PostScript)
> extensions to the X server that pageview is expecting.
>
> If you run xdpyinfo on your Sun display you'll see (near the top) a
> list of extensions:
>
> number of extensions: 14
> SUN_ALLPLANES
> Adobe-DPS-Extension <---------
> DPSExtension <---------
> SHAPE
> MIT-SHM
> Multi-Buffering
> XInputExtension
> XInputDeviceEvents
> XTEST
> MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
> SUN_DGA
> SolarisIA
> SUN_OVL
> AccessX
>
> The NeWS extension is NOT listed under Solaris 2.4 or SunOS 4.1.x.
> If you run the same command as
>
> xdpyinfo -display pchostname:0
>
> you should see that some extensions are not available.
>
> If you're desparate to display PostScript on ANY X terminal, use
> Alladdin ghostscript 3.51 (or above) in combination with ghostview
> 1.5. See:
>
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html
>
> or
>
> ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin
>
> PS You should also see the same behaviour if you try to display
> AnswerBook documents on your non Sun (sparc) X terminals - I'm pretty
> sure it expects NeWS/DPS extensions too.
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sample2: reply from Gyula P. Szokoly (szgyula@skysrv.pha.jhu.edu)
> The problem is what it says: no DPS. DPS (display postscript) is an
> extension to the vanilla X11. Many workstations know it, many Xterminals
> don't. Possible solutions:
> 1. Use ghostview.
> 2. Adobe (I think) has a product that wraps the DPS calls on the remote
> end, does the DPS interpretation, and converts it to normal X11.
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I would like to say a special thanks to the following
people who mailed replies.
Jason Wood <jason@momentum.com.au>
Peter Samuel <Peter.Samuel@nms.otc.com.au>
"Daniel J Blander - Sr. Systems Engineer for ACS" <Daniel.Blander@ACSacs.com>
u2is9gef@gregsun.crrel.usace.army.mil (GREGOR E FELLERS )
irana@hrwallingford.co.uk
davem@cp.tybrin.com (Dave McFerren)
mark@ccifl.com (Mark Sherman)
adam@ltx.com (Adam Nevins)
lmcpabr@lmc.ericsson.se (Paul Brown)
tim.newman@amp.com (Tim Newman)
Bill Reed <reedwv@stp.xfi.bp.com>
george@dbms.com (George L Roman)
David Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
Mr T Crummey <tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk>
Glenn.Satchell@Uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell)
perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison)
sven@mpim-bonn.mpg.de (Sven Maurmann)
Henry Katz <hkatz@panix.com>
dvb@eis.com (D. Van Beveren)
mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com (Mike Salehi)
nobroin@esoc.esa.de (Niall O Broin)
Gyula Szokoly <szgyula@skysrv.Pha.Jhu.EDU>
peter@jrc.nl (Peter Watkins)
regards.
James.
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