3003jalp@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Applied Magnetics) (12/14/90)
Where is the PostScript support on the RISC/6000 ? An InfoExplorer search for `Display PostScript' reveals that `we support Display PostScript, too'. A search for `PostScript' ferrets out more low-level stuff. I would expect this much: 1) A utility to convert straight ascii files to ps. 2) Font tables and a postprocessor for troff. 3) A ps previewer. 4) Instructions to configure InfoExplorer for printing. Instead, I find this: 1-2: nothing. Fortunately, I have some freeware; we'll see. 3: A bunch of sources in /usr/lpp/DPS/examples and a few executables in /usr/lpp/DPS/bin. Except for bin/copyright, I can't figure out what they do. 4: Nothing serious. Info is pre-configured and shrink-wrapped. It prints graphics, but attempts to print the text articles as straight ascii. Well, my printer takes PostScript only, ascii won't work; besides, I want typeset output. I hesitate to ask IBM. What wisdom is there on the net? --Pierre Asselin, R&D, Applied Magnetics. I speak for me (mostly).
cbradley@Busl.COM (Chris Bradley) (12/17/90)
In article <7824@hub.ucsb.edu> 3003jalp@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Applied Magnetics) writes: >Where is the PostScript support on the RISC/6000 ? I guess I feel motivated to make a public display of ignorance, but isn't IBM offering Display PostScript on the RS/6000 machines through their offering of the NextStep user/developer environment? I know that DPS is part of the Next "Window Server," and that creating a PS previewer app on top of that is easy compared to putting one together without DPS as a base. -- Chris Bradley | "Nothing is more certain than incertainties; Businessland Advanced Systems | Fortune is full of fresh variety: Dallas, Texas US | Constant in nothing but inconstancy." cbradley@busl.com | -- Richard Barnfield 1574-1627