Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!bionet!arisia!roo!janssen From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: OW as a PostScript X server... Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 90 03:45:41 GMT References: <9011072333.AA17805@islanders.> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 24 In-reply-to: fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM's message of 7 Nov 90 23:33:32 GMT And, no X extensions are involved; you're guaranteed to get PS rendering with OW. That's right; you get it by involving a different world. You first create an X window, then open a second socket to the NeWS side of the server, then pass the window-id of the X window across to the NeWS world, then do PostScript'ish things to the NeWS world, while doing X'y things to the X world. Strikes me it would be "a good thing" to have a pseudo-Display PostScript extension to the OW server, so that a programmer could manipulate xnews just as they manipulate the DEC or IBM servers extended with real Display PostScript. The way it is now, you have no hope of running your (two-world) program on anything but xnews. Perhaps a "standard" extension for doing PostScript imaging is something the Consortium will address. Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen@parc.xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304