glenn@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Glenn Geers) (06/14/90)
Hi, I am about to start porting Ghostscript to Xenix/386 driving a VGA without CGI. If this has been done I'd be interested to know. If anyone is interested in the results of the port I'd also like to here from you. Should take about two weeks - I'm only going to work at it on an on and off basis. BTW is there a quicker way to do coloured pixels than banging away at the registers (i.e. using ioctl) for *each* pixel? This can be sloooow. Glenn glenn@extro.ucc.su.oz.au -- Glenn Geers | "So when it's over, we're back to people. Department of Theoretical Physics | Just to prove that human touch can have The University of Sydney | no equal." Sydney NSW 2006 Australia | - Basia Trzetrzelewska, 'Prime Time TV'
glenn@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Glenn Geers) (06/15/90)
Hi, thanks to the people who replied. The port looks much easier than anticipated and I should have it going by Monday (fingers crossed). Also I am porting version 1.4beta and I'm guessing that the device interface will not change between this and the official 1.4 release. Should I let the GNU people know so this driver is included in later releases ? Also, some comments were made about CGI and device independence. It is possible to grab the display adapter type using an ioctl and then including code to do line drawing etc. for each type. This just clutters the code during initial development/testing and can be easily added later. I'm also going to make epson printer support available under U*IX, at the moment it is only provided under DOS. Does anyone know where I can't get additional Ghostscript fonts ? - I've looked on prep.ai.mit.edu but can't see any. Glenn glenn@extro.ucc.su.oz.au -- Glenn Geers | "So when it's over, we're back to people. Department of Theoretical Physics | Just to prove that human touch can have The University of Sydney | no equal." Sydney NSW 2006 Australia | - Basia Trzetrzelewska, 'Prime Time TV'