timothyg@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Timothy Gallivan) (04/16/91)
Hi, This is my third attempt to post this info. I'll get it right one day. I have a partial port of ghostscript (GNU project's postscript interpreter) running on the ST. I know of one small bug, but as soon as I get gdb working, I hope to exterminate it. I currently have only the HP DeskJet driver working, but I think (hope) it will be simple to install any of the other drivers distributed with ghostscript (i.e. epson). I am soliciting any information (about the atari and ghostscript) which might help me to write a screen driver for the ST. I am not very familiar with ST hardware, TOS, GEM, or the ghostscript device interface, so that is a tall order. Perhaps someone will volunteer to write it for me (wishful thinking). Is it possible to have a GEM screen driver for a non-GEM program? Can I hack one of the MSDOS VGA drivers? I also have dvips running on the ST. Dvips converts TeX .dvi files to postscript files. It supports the use of TeX 'special' commands to include postscript graphics in TeX/LaTeX documents. The TeX/dvips/ghostscript combination can be very powerful. I can post these programs (as they are) if anyone is interested and is willing to give me instructions for how to post executables. Thanks, Tim Gallivan timothyg@ncsa.uiuc.edu
ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) (04/18/91)
I have uploaded to atari.archive.umich.edu Tim Gallivan's pre release version of dvips for the Atari ST: pr_dvips.zoo. Tim would like to get feedback from you Atariens. So please send comments/kudos/ criticisms to him: timothyg@yoda.ncsa.uiuc.edu. Cheers, -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Proud owner of a Mega 4 ST. Wishing it was a Mega STe! :-|