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From: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: new version of ralpage (PostScript previewer) available
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.002853.14831@sics.se>
Date: 21 Aug 90 00:28:53 GMT
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Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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(ralpage is a later version of the xps PostScript previewer. ralpage
has much better font support that xps.)

I retrieved the ralpage package from expo on the 15'th of August.
ralpage turned out to have a number of bugs.

I have now fixed some of the bugs. I have also applied Barry Shein's
performance enhancements, and a few changes by John G. Myers that
had not made it into ralpage.

It turned out that there was a problem with user defined fonts, at least
they did not work for me. I "fixed" the problem by turning off the caching
of the user defined fonts (in ShowUser() in font.c).

The new version is available by anonymous ftp from
	sics.se (192.16.123.90)
as
	archive/ralpage.tar.Z

The version on expo had almost non existent installation documentation.
The new version is no better in this respect.

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Johan Widen
SICS, PO Box 1263, S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN	Internet: jw@sics.se
Tel: +46 8 752 15 32	Ttx: 812 61 54 SICS S	Fax: +46 8 751 72 30