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From: jonnyg@ROVER.UMD.EDU (Jon Greenblatt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Postscript previewer...
Message-ID: <8809081746.AA12104@rover.UMD.EDU>
Date: 8 Sep 88 17:46:31 GMT
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	I have been trying to port the Crispin Goswell postscript previewer
tp an IBM RT/PC with some problems. I have been tracing for hours and get
nowhere but confused. The problems I have are the following:

	1: The fonts come up with a width of 0. I tried tracing the font code
           but the caching stuff got real confusing, I could not track down
           exactly how the fonts are read in. I noticed the initial
	   installation does not create the cache directory and
           subdirectories but the whole thing worked correctly on a VAX
	    even without the cache directory.

	2: The speedups bomb on the RT, this is not important to me at this
	   point.

	I have changed the X11.c driver to support a fake version of backing
store, real backing store does not work on the RT's as of yet. If you
are interested in this let me know, right now it is somewhat dependent on
the RT server implementation but that is a easy but kludgey change to make.


					JonnyG.
					(jonnyg@rover.umd.edu)
					(jonnyg@umd5.umd.edu)