ghost@aladdin.com (L. Peter Deutsch) (08/10/89)
Regarding your Ghostscript questions: > 1) Does it have fonts with it or is it graphics only? Releases up to this point include a single, somewhat ugly font. Discussions have been underway for some time to try to figure out what to do about this. The Ghostscript software does include PostScript-compatible font machinery (without Adobe's tricks for making scaled fonts look really good, however). > 2) Can I use it to print to a HP Laserjet? No one has written a LaserJet driver yet. The next release (1.4) will include a driver for the DeskJet. Would you like to write a LaserJet driver and contribute it? > 3) Can I print to a bit map file (for example, I may want to produce > a 200 dpi bit image to send some postscript output as a fax). That's actually how the DeskJet driver works. Rendering to bitmap files will be supported quite thoroughly in 1.4. On small (PC) systems, the driver uses a software paging technique to get around memory limitations for high-resolution printers. > 4) What PS commands are not implemented? The full answer to this is in the Ghostscript documentation. The short answer is that resetfile, echo, save, restore, reversepath, and strokepath aren't implemented; there are some problems or limitations in charpath, clip and eoclip, as well as some minor problems with a few other operators. At this point, Ghostscript has successfully displayed / printed a very wide variety of PostScript files. L. Peter Deutsch ghost@aladdin.com Aladdin Enterprises ...{uunet,parcplace}!aladdin!ghost P. O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306