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From: ambar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean Marie Diaz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: postscript previewer under X11
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Date: 31 Jan 88 11:29:50 GMT
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I and Jordan Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) have been writing an X11
driver for Crispin Goswell's recently posted PostScript interpreter.

Right now, it's got 3 major problems which I intend to fix before I turn
it loose:

1) It does not deal intelligently (er, at all) with expose events.
2) Fonts smaller than ~90 points don't work.
3) BitBlit() doesn't work.  (This affects the Image family of commands.)

A fourth problem is that greyscale does not work on monochrome monitors.
That'll be fixed when Jordan digs himself out from under uwm bugs.
Maybe.  ("Dithering?  Dithering?  Isn't that a small town in the south
of England?" :-)

Of course, by the time I fix these problems, it'll be time to go
through and clean up the code, and design a decent set of fonts,
instead of the Hershey fonts it came with, and...... :-)

				AMBAR