greid@adobe.UUCP (09/08/88)
The Display PostScript system from Adobe provides all the power of the PostScript imaging model and font library and still lets you take advantage of a standard windowing environment like X windows. It is, in a sense, the best of both worlds: * C-language procedural interface to PostScript programming, providing for PostScript-language toolbox implementations with C library calling conventions. * Full and complete implementation of the PostScript language plus many extensions for speed and highly interactive use. * Client/Server model with many simultaneous contexts handled independently by the server. Many options for sharing and communication. * Full font library compatibility with PostScript printers, so you can compose and actually print with many different fonts. * Bug-free softare from Adobe :-) * Coming soon to a system software house near you. Make sure you're on our contact list. Be the first on your block to get fast-breaking news and information on the Display PostScript system. To become a member of the Adobe Developer Association, please contact Cynthia Johnston, our Developer Support Representative, at 415-962-2013 or send her mail as "adobe!johnston". She will send you an application form. If you just want information but are not a software developer, mention that to her. Glenn Reid Adobe Systems
msc@canth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow) (09/09/88)
In article <8809072114.AA17658@ondine.LOCAL>, greid@adobe.UUCP writes: > > The Display PostScript system from Adobe provides all the power of the > PostScript imaging model and font library and still lets you take > advantage of a standard windowing environment like X windows. It is, in > a sense, the best of both worlds: > > * Full and complete implementation of the PostScript language > plus many extensions for speed and highly interactive use. Since Display PostScript deals only with output, the application has to implement inverse transformations so that when a user selects something she's looking at in Display PostScript space, the application can tell what it was. All input from X comes in screen space. I'm sure you can have Display PostScript perform the inverse transformation but that seems to mean a round trip to the server in addition to the trip the screen-space input already took getting back from the server. This makes interactive applications kind of hard. I could be completely wrong. There may be some extension I'm not aware of that takes care of this. I hope I am wrong. Let me know. -Mark -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@sgi.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl,sun}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."
lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) (09/14/88)
In article <8809072114.AA17658@ondine.LOCAL> greid@adobe.UUCP writes: >Make sure you're on our contact list. Be the first on your block to >get fast-breaking news and information on the Display PostScript >system. Say what? I've forgotten how long we've been on the developer list. We have NEVER received a piece of mail (electronic or otherwise) about anything! What gives? Do we just keep getting lost? or are there no announcements coming from Adobe these days? (Nobody ever told us about TranScript 2.0 ...) I've complained about this before in private mail -- never heard a word back. So, now I ask again in public: What gives? -- VE6BBM {alberta,pyramid,uunet}!ncc!lyndon lyndon@Nexus.CA