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From: maffett@uther.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Maffett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Postscript on the Amiga
Summary: Display Postscript for the Amiga ?
Keywords: POST, postscript, Amiga
Message-ID: <15850@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 90 02:31:50 GMT
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In article <202@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mq.oz (Ian Farquhar) writes:
>In article <10340@spudge.UUCP> johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch) writes:
>>In article <767.25ca2242@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
>>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.
>
>Could someone either post this or send it to me?  If I can get the code,
>I might be able to add the font handling (which fairly simple). 
>
>
>Ian Farquhar                      Phone : (612) 805-7420
>Australia                         Telex : AA122377

   POST is a now up to version 1.0 (the version discussed above was version
0.1).  Version 1.0 of POST has the following features:
  - Full support for Type 3 Postscript fonts
  - Support of the entire Postscript language, including color Postscript.
  - Full intuition interface, or command line interface.
  - Output to screen, printer, or iff file.
  - Ability to specify the "dpi" used for the image.
  - Any preferences printer can be used at its maximum resolution.
  - IFF files up to 32000x32000.
  - POST supports B/W and both Postscript color models (RGB and CYMB),
    to both screen and printer.
   ( \/ this one is NeAT!)
  - Message port interface, so POST can be used for a "kind" of display
    Postscript.  An example program is included which demonstrates this 
    message port interface.  Basically you issue commands to POST, and
    in return POST displays the results to your supplied bitmap.

  POST comes on both 68000 and 68020/30 versions.  The 68000 version is
very fast, and 20/30 version is about even faster.  About 30 seconds for my
typical page (output to the screen), and somewhat longer for the printer.

  Type 1 font support should be added as soon as Adobe releases the info.
  
  I will ask the author about posting POST to the net.
tmm

-  maffett@uther.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Maffett)
or maffett@netcom.UUCP