4225_5257@uwovax.uwo.ca (02/26/89)
I remember hearing some talk a while back about a P.D. Postscript previewer program. Now I find myself in need of just such a program. If somebody has access to it, could they please post it (the executable) in comp.amiga.binaries? Many thanks, Steve van der Burg
paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) (02/28/89)
In article <1741@uwovax.uwo.ca> 4225_5257@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
->
-> I remember hearing some talk a while back about a P.D. Postscript previewer
->program.
-> Now I find myself in need of just such a program. If somebody has access to
->it, could they please post it (the executable) in comp.amiga.binaries?
To my knowledge there has only been one such program ever posted and it was
called ps. I don't mean to criticize the author, but the program wasn't
much of a PostScript previewer. Every Postscript file that I tried on it
wouldn't work. The only PostScript programs that it seemed to accept were
simple five line ones. Come on, somebody must have or must be working on a
decent PostScript previewer. Has anybody looked into porting the GNU
GhostScript?
->Many thanks,
->Steve van der Burg
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In article <58@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes: > Come on, somebody must have or must be working on a > decent PostScript previewer. Has anybody looked into porting the GNU > GhostScript? I would like to see Ghostscript on my Amiga too. I have some whishes concering how to access it. It should be a CON-like device. Then I could choose to send the ps-code to SER: or PS:. Or set the file name in CMD to PS: Should be a nice project for someone. ---- Robin Rosenberg, ]bo Akademi, FINLAND Address: Finn|, 22340 Geta, ]LAND - FINLAND or Studentbyn 40A3, 20510 ]BO, FINLAND Translation: ']' is an 'A' with a ring on top, '|' is an 'o' with two dots.
deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) (03/04/89)
In article <5856@abo.fi> rosenbergr@abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg, Computer Science, ]bo Akademi) writes: -In article <58@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes: -> Come on, somebody must have or must be working on a -> decent PostScript previewer. Has anybody looked into porting the GNU -> GhostScript? -I would like to see Ghostscript on my Amiga too. I have some whishes concering -how to access it. It should be a CON-like device. Then I could choose to send -the ps-code to SER: or PS:. Or set the file name in CMD to PS: -Should be a nice project for someone. Porting the GNU GhostScript would be great. Extend it into NeWS, maybe even. But it should be an Exec postscript.device (or ghostscript.device) with an accompanying PS: AmigaDOS device. Similar to the console.device and CON: or serial.device and SER: distinctions. Deven -- ------- shadow@pawl.rpi.edu ------- Deven Thomas Corzine --------------------- Cogito shadow@acm.rpi.edu 2346 15th Street Pi-Rho America ergo userfxb6@rpitsmts.bitnet Troy, NY 12180-2306 (518) 272-5847 sum... In the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank what?" ...I think.
rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (03/04/89)
> -> Has anybody looked into porting the GNU GhostScript? > Porting the GNU GhostScript would be great. I've got the GhostScript 1.2 source and have been working on the port. Some issues come to mind, though: - Any ideas on how to specify (to the device) - Horizontal and Vertical resolution? - Horizontal and Vertical size? Should I use the virtual page library by CLtd for the image (which will allow color and fragmented bitmaps)? Interactive drawing to a window might be nice, too. Should I provide the graphics primitives (including path generation and the like) as a library callable by other routines? This program will require memory, but I'm trying to keep it as small as possible. GhostScript itself does some very nasty stuff internally (grabbing the return address from a jump_buf structure, doing very strange things with the stack frame inside of a procedure, etc.) but I'll give it my best shot. Please, any suggestions at all are appreciated. -Tom Rokicki BIX: radical.eye BBS: (415) 32-RADIO Voice: (415) 32-AMIGA Internet: rokicki@polya.stanford.edu Deep Voice: (415) 326-5312 Snail: Radical Eye Software, Box 2081, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) (03/04/89)
In article <7395@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
->I've got the GhostScript 1.2 source and have been working on the
->port. Some issues come to mind, though:
Great Tom. Now I know we'll see a good implementation of GhostScript
on the Amiga.
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