[OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar

[William Adams]

Ray said:
>I though it was just me!! This is actually a persistent problem with 
>the mac platform as far as I've experienced. I get ps files all the 
>time in email and from the web and opening them is always a struggle. 
>It got better with OSX, then as you note, kinda broke with OS10.2 after 
>some relief with TeXShop. In OS9, the very expensive Tailor was very 
>useful, 

Even cooler as Tailor.app in NeXTstep.

>but TeXShop really seemed the neatest thing.

Imagine how cool it'd've been if we'd had Display PostScript and we 
could've had all of TeXView.app's functionality out of the box as it were.

>Ideas would _really_ be welcome on this general subject.

GhostScript---there's a Mac (shareware) port of a viewing program, or you
could use X Window

William

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