ssp@sun.UUCP (S. Page) (04/29/87)
Several people in this news group have expressed interest in a
PostScript interpreter or previewer. Sun is now shipping NeWS, the
Network / extensible Window System, and other manufacturers support it
or plan to. NeWS is based on a subset of PostScript (basically, it
currently doesn't support outline fonts or the definefont primitive),
with extensions to deal with windows, multiple lightweight processes,
input devices and events.
You can connect to the NeWS server and interactively type PostScript at
it. A primitive PostScript previewer is a 10-line shell script:
connect to server, create a window, feed it PostScript. The NeWS
calculator is a shell script which dumps 230 lines of PostScript into
the server which implement a four function calculator living entirely
in the server. It's pretty damn amazing. There is a news group for
NeWS discussion, comp.windows.news.
PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.
These are my opinions, not my employer's.
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