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From: johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Postscript on the Amiga
Message-ID: <10340@spudge.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 19:14:06 GMT
References: <767.25ca2242@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Reply-To: johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch)
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In article <767.25ca2242@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
>Does anyone know of a Postscript interpreter/converter for the Amiga?  I would
>like to get some Postscript files from Mathematica on a NeXT and display them
>as IFF's.  I do have a utility that is supposed to convert IFF files to
>Poscript files, but don't have anything for converting the other way.
>
>James Walden
>JWWALDEN@MIAVX1

There's a nifty little postscript interpreter that showed up just recently on
Compu$erve.  It's file name is POST.LZH and I believe that it should still be
in Data Library 1 (the new uploads section).

It only knows how to handle postscript graphics commands (although it does
have the color extensions).  It won't handle text and font stuff at this time.
It can display to screen, print, or save as an IFF file.  I was impressed
with its ability to handle a lot of the graphics stuff that GhostScript
generates very poor output for.

John Munsch