ring@cg-atla.UUCP (Steve Ring) (04/29/88)
What is the state of Interpress at Xerox? On which machines are they
supporting the full graphics implementation? Is this the right place to
discuss Interpress?
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Steve Ring
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Wilmington, Mass., 01887, (617) 658-5600, x5092mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel) (06/20/91)
Does anyone know of a way to view Interpress files in another environment (such as X Windows) or of a way to convert Interpress files to something else (such as Postscript/Ghostscript). Thankyou, Daniel
keh@sequent.com (06/20/91)
In article <1991Jun19.223811.20175@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel) writes: > >Does anyone know of a way to view Interpress files in another environment >(such as X Windows) or of a way to convert Interpress files to something >else (such as Postscript/Ghostscript). > >Thankyou, > >Daniel I'd like to know this, too. :-) What timing! Could you forward any repsonses to me. Thanks. Keith Hamilton keh@sequent.com ..!uucp!sequent!keh -- ------------------------- Keith Hamilton Sequent Computer Systems keh@sequent.com
rxcob@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Owen Baker) (06/20/91)
keh@sequent.com writes: >>Does anyone know of a way to view Interpress files in another environment >>(such as X Windows) or of a way to convert Interpress files to something >>else (such as Postscript/Ghostscript). >> >I'd like to know this, too. :-) What timing! Could you >forward any repsonses to me. Thanks. Ive asked this question some time ago and got 0 replies. The only thing I can offer is that Xerox are working on or maybe by now have released a Postscript "driver" for the Viewpoint and XPS systems, but dont quote me. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Owen Baker | | odb@bodoni.csu.rmit.oz.au RMIT Novell - BODONI/ODB | | CSU, RMIT, Melbourne, Vic. Australia. Telephone (61) (3) 660-2038 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
rtor@ansa.co.uk (Owen Rees) (06/24/91)
Owen Baker <rxcob@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> writes: > keh@sequent.com writes: > > >>Does anyone know of a way to view Interpress files in another environment > >>(such as X Windows) or of a way to convert Interpress files to something > >>else (such as Postscript/Ghostscript). > >> > >I'd like to know this, too. :-) What timing! Could you > >forward any repsonses to me. Thanks. > > Ive asked this question some time ago and got 0 replies. The only thing I can > offer is that Xerox are working on or maybe by now have released a Postscript > "driver" for the Viewpoint and XPS systems, but dont quote me. I have some Postscript files generated from Viewpoint documents lurking aroung somewhere so the technology exists. Xerox lost interest in telling us anything about Postscript when they realised we were not about to buy a phototypesetter. (We asked their salesmen about it again a few months ago - promised information not delivered, only a "would you like to buy VP for sparcstations" leaflet.) To answer the original question "Does anyone know of a way..." I suspect that the only answer is for one of us who wants it to write one. I have a few functions that decode Interpress files into operations and operands but no time to do any more. Anyone volunteering to take it further is welcome to a copy. Owen. ======================================================= Owen Rees Email: rtor@ansa.co.uk APM, Poseidon House Phone: + 44 223 323010 Castle Park, Cambridge Fax: + 44 223 359779 CB3 0RD, UK ====== Brevis esse laboro obscurus fio (Horace) =======
mjh@cs.bham.ac.uk (Mark Hewitt) (06/27/91)
If you are going to develop an Interpress -> PostScript converter, be aware of the following: a) Some of the maths is rather tricky b) Allow the order of a man year to do a good job c) It will be very slow d) It will be difficult to support some INTERPRES operators (but I can't remember which, it's a couple of years since we did this, CORRECT requires two passes over the evaluation stack as I recall, which makes it very slow if it is used to perform justification.) The present Interpress -> postscript enging (written byy us where us = Kernel Technology NOT Birmingham University where I post this from) will only support phototypesetters, and will not work on Apple LaserWriters or other PostScript printers. This is an explicit trap because Xerox clearly don't want to loose sales of their printers to the competition. (Excuse the bouncy keyboard - I'll get a new one some day) I speak for me alone. Mark J. Hewitt