lamy@ai.toronto.edu (04/04/87)
I would tend to think that a PostScript to Impress converter would have to be a full PostScript interpreter that produces a bitmap and ships that to the Imagen. The reason is that PostScript supports dozens of features that have no equivalent in Impress and cannot be easily simulated. It is also unlikely that you can do without the PostScript fonts. This is perfectly possible. PostScript previewers are on the works by Adobe for X and Sun will support a PostScript oriented windowing system, but in both cases graphic processing is done locally on the machine that runs the display. This is exactly what a PostScript printer is: a reasonably powerful computer running an interpreter to produce a rasterized image. You are asking for a previewer with resolution=300dpi and a back end to ship bitmaps to the Imagen. So if nothing else will kill you, the communication overhead might. Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.toronto.edu (CSNet, UUCP) AI Group, Dept of Computer Science, lamy@ai.toronto.cdn (EAN) University of Toronto, Ont, Canada M5S 1A4 lamy@ai.utoronto (Bitnet)