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From: gwh@penguin.inmos.co.uk (Graham Hudspith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How to display a postscript file in X windows?
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Date: 6 Oct 90 13:32:11 GMT
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Why has no-one in this thread mentioned Ghostscript 2.0 ??
This lets you display Postscript on both X11R4 and Sunview screens
and is a HUUUUUUUUUGE improvement over previous versions.

Using X resources you can fool Ghostscript into thinking that your screen
has (for instance) 300dpi rather than 72dpi, which some people have been
asking for.

It can display almost all the demo postscript files given with XView 2.0.

And it is far, far better than xps, xralpage, ralpage, ...
At least there is a recognised set of people supporting Ghostscript,
whereas Crispin Goswell (the original writer of ralpage) seems to have
got sick of it or lost access to the net.

The only problem with Ghostscript is that the fonts (of which there are
a lot now, not just "ugly font") are a bit "lumpy". This, presumably,
is because they were quickly hacked by converting the MIT X11 fonts,
and new, nicer, fonts are under developement.

Come on, try it, you'll enjoy it.

Graham Hudspith


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