peter@memex.co.uk (Peter Ilieve) (10/25/89)
Has any work been done on Crispin Goswell's PostScript interpreter (for X or SunView) beyond the John Myers/Barry Shein patches from mid-1988? In particular has anybody modified it to read the Adobe font files that came with X11R3? I haven't looked very closely but the font files that it uses seem similar enough to the BDF font files for it to be possible. Peter Ilieve peter@memex.co.uk
gerry@cs.keele.ac.uk (Gerry Pratt) (10/27/89)
Peter Ilieve@memex.co.uk writes:- > Has any work been done on Crispin Goswell's PostScript interpreter (for X or > SunView) beyond the John Myers/Barry Shein patches from mid-1988? > In particular has anybody modified it to read the Adobe font files that > came with X11R3? I haven't looked very closely but the font files that > it uses seem similar enough to the BDF font files for it to be possible. which I think is a good question. In May 1989 this appear in comp.lang.postscript:- From: opus@athena.mit.edu (Mr. P. Opus) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Goswell's Postscript Interpreter Date: 11 May 89 09:07:35 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: opus@athena.mit.edu (Mr. P. Opus) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 15 A note to all those people wondering about a PostScript interpreter for X11: There exists one, written by Crispin Goswell. We have a version of this interpreter here at athena, and have spent MANY hours optimizing it. It is currently approximately 20-200 times faster than the version 1.4 with patches that is in general release. We are trying to iron out the last of the nasty bugs, and will post the results soon (pending approval of Mr. Goswell). This program was optimized by trained professionals using the proper profiling equipment. Please do not attempt this in your own home if you value your sanity. -David Jedlinsky opus@athena.mit.edu Project Athena ``Watchmaker'' so did anything appear from that posting? We find ralpage very useful here and a faster version would be even better! Regarding fonts I *do* use the X11R3 fonts. In the font file /usr/local/lib/ralpage/screen-fonts I have :- # this file describes the screen fonts available to the interpreter # # the font name is that used by documents # # each screen font name comprises a prefix, a point size and a suffix. # To be useful, a range of sizes should be available. # e.g. # family-cache/sans10.snf # # family-cache/sans is the prefix # 10 is one of the available point sizes # .snf is the suffix # # a null suffix can be specified with "" # # if the prefix begins with a / it is taken to be an absolute path name # if it does not, the $RALPAGELIB library name is prepended, so that fonts can be # placed in the ralpage library. # # the resolution is in pixels per inch and describes the screen resolution that # will display the font at the given point size. # # font name prefix suffix resolution format Serif-Roman adobe-cache/timR .snf 75 snf Serif-Italic adobe-cache/timI .snf 75 snf Serif-Bold adobe-cache/timB .snf 75 snf Serif-BoldItalic adobe-cache/timBI .snf 75 snf Sans-Roman adobe-cache/helvR .snf 75 snf Sans-Italic adobe-cache/helvO .snf 75 snf Sans-Bold adobe-cache/helvB .snf 75 snf Sans-BoldItalic adobe-cache/helvBO .snf 75 snf Times-Roman adobe-cache/timR .snf 75 snf Times-Italic adobe-cache/timI .snf 75 snf Times-Bold adobe-cache/timB .snf 75 snf Times-BoldItalic adobe-cache/timBI .snf 75 snf Helvetica adobe-cache/helvR .snf 75 snf Helvetica-Oblique adobe-cache/helvO .snf 75 snf Helvetica-Bold adobe-cache/helvB .snf 75 snf Helvetica-BoldOblique adobe-cache/helvBO .snf 75 snf Courier adobe-cache/courR .snf 75 snf Courier-Oblique adobe-cache/courO .snf 75 snf Courier-Bold adobe-cache/courB .snf 75 snf Courier-BoldOblique adobe-cache/courBO .snf 75 snf Symbol adobe-cache/symb .snf 75 snf while adobe-cache is linked to:- ls -l /usr/local/lib/ralpage/adobe-cache lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 24 May 8 17:14 /usr/local/lib/ralpage/adobe-cache -> /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ -- gerry pratt - workstation support - university of keele email: gerry@uk.ac.keele.seq1 * tel: 0782 621111 x 3290