rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson) (12/19/90)
Dear People, I requested information on the availability of Display-PostScript a short time ago. Unfortunately I received only one response. If I could rephrase the question, Are there any Display-PostScript Libraries or DLL's available for any of the following, MS-Windows (TrueImage?) OS/2 Presentation Manager From what little I know, Display-Postscript is available for DEC-Windows and a derivative is available under the NeXT-Step interface. What about NeWS ? Thanks in advance, Robert D. Thompson rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu
pkr@media01.UUCP (Peter Kriens) (12/21/90)
Display postscript is an extension that can only be licensed from Adobe. It is "normally" an extension on X-Windows. It consists of a server extension where the postscript engine is added to the X-server. The communication from the client side uses the X-window prototcol. From the source side you can call procedures which sound the same as the procedures in postscript (e.g. moveto, save). There is a utility, pswrap, that converts a ps file into C, this is also used for the interface lib. As far as I know is the IBM RS 6000, DEC windows and NeXT the only implementation at the moment. But you can talk to Adobe to get a licence. But you better be prepared to pay.. For Windows or OS/2, I think DPS is too closely linked to X to run on these tiny window systems. It is really very nice to work with f you can run it on a fast machine. I used it on a RS6000 530 server. Nice! Hope to have helped you a little bit further, Peter Kriens pkr@media01
spage@cup.portal.com (S spage Page) (12/22/90)
"What about NeWS?" NeWS is an implementation of the PostScript language and imaging model, with extensions to handle processes, "canvases" (arbitrarily-shaped windows), input events, etc. It's part of Sun's X11/NeWS merged server, which is part of OpenWindows, which is now Sun's standard window system (and is also part of System V release 4, although not core). In OpenWindows 2.0, the PostScript implementation and conformance became a lot more robust (solid enough for Sun to base their NeWSPrint printer software on it). NeWS comes with CPS, which lets you define and call PostScript routines from C and contact the server, an object-oriented programming extensions to PostScript (written in PS), a prototype UI toolkit (written in PS), a page previewer, etc. The nicest thing about it is writing portable PostScript programs that create windows and animations when you send them to the server, just as PostScript programs sent to a printer create attractive pages. For more info, look to comp.windows.news =S Page
louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) (01/05/91)
In article <1619@media01.UUCP> pkr@media01.UUCP (Peter Kriens) writes: > It is "normally" an extension on X-Windows. >For Windows or OS/2, I think DPS is too closely linked to X to run >on these tiny window systems. I believe that Display PostScript was available on the NeXT platform before it was spotted in a commercially supported X11 flavor. The NeXT uses Display PostScript as its native windowing system, with no X11. So X11 is not a necessary condition for Display PostScript. louie