john@RENOIR.BERKELEY.EDU (John Coker) (09/21/87)
UPS version 0.2.3 with several bugs fixed and much improved font
machinery is now avaialable for public ftp/uccp (see the complete
announcement below). This sub-release is mainly bug fixes, especially
in font handling and placement.
Ups will still fail for HP users with the old release of X due to a bug
in XCreateCursor. Sorry about that. This has been fixed on the HP displays
on campus, but I can't make promises for the rest of the world.
Machines other than Vax and Sun 68020 are still not available, although
I hope to have CCI and Apollo versions available soon.
John
P.S. Please send follow-ups to me personally, not to the alias.
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UPS version 0.2 is now available for use in binary-only form (for Vax and
Sun 68020 machines) via public ftp and uucp from ucbvax (Berkeley.EDU). For
ftp, the file names are (~ftp/pub/) ups0.2.vax and ups0.2.sun (compressed
versions of these files also exist). For uucp, the files are (~uucp/)
ups0.2.vax.uue and ups0.2.sun.uue (uuencoded, compressed tar files).
The major improvement in 0.2 (over 0.1) is that font rendering is now
implemented. Unfortunately, we still do not have the shapes (outlines) of
Adobe's fonts for the LaserWriter. So, the standard LaserWriter fonts are
available for use, but each character prints as a rectangle the size of the
bounding box of its image (as given in the AFM files distributed by Adobe).
This is sufficient for the moment for the previewing function although less
than pleasant for pages with more than a small amount of text.
There are also many small bug fixes and improvements as one would expect.
One important fix is that now UPS will run on color displays (although true
color devices are not supported as they should be). Also, many missing
operators have been added, especially those affecting the graphics state.
UPS is a PostScript interpreter under UNIX which can image on an X
window. Even though it is still under development, I think the program is
useful and I'm always intereted in hearing about bugs and suggestions.
Address all correspondence to john@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (if you're reporting
a bug, please check the list of known bugs in BUGS0.2 before you send mail).
Please don't ask for sources yet; they will be available when version 1.0 is
released.
Enjoy,
John Coker
john@renoir.Berkeley.EDU
September 9, 1987xev@hstbme.mit.edu (Xev Gittler) (12/23/87)
Can someone tell me where I can get a copy of ups? Xev Gittler xev@hstbme.mit.edu, or xev@athena.it.edu