hdai@edison.seas.ucla.edu (HongXing Dai) (06/28/91)
Is there a Postscript preview in RS/6000? I checked the info comes with system, asked the IBM engineer but could not get any answer. Ultrix and Sun both come with Postscript preview.... Dai
fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) (06/28/91)
In article <3219@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>, hdai@edison.seas.ucla.edu (HongXing Dai) writes: |> Is there a Postscript preview in RS/6000? I checked the info comes with |> system, asked the IBM engineer but could not get any answer. Ultrix |> and Sun both come with Postscript preview.... |> Yes, other than DPS which I haven't had time to figure out how to use, you can port ghostscript v2.21, annon ftpable from export.lcs.mit.edu, cd contrib, bin, then get. I was going to generate a set of patch for Peter Deutsch. But I accidentally issued an rm -rf right after I did the installation :-(... Anyway, it's not too difficult to port. Most of my time was spent on getting headers straight. And I linked it with IBM supplied R3 libs. I tried R4 libs but it didn't pass some tests. Ghostscript may be somewhat slow, but definitely it gets the job done, sometimes quite well. You may occationally unable to use gs to preview some really complex pictures, due to a bug in IBM X server. (I am still using 3.003 :-( I wish I had more info about Display PostScript :-( Sincerely, Chin Fang Mechanical Engineering Department Stanford University fangchin@leland.stanford.edu