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Moti Thadani

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Nov 30, 1994, 4:26:38 PM11/30/94
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Is there some way I can get an X server and libraries for X that
includes PEX and XIE? Is DPS available for XFree86 or is it a licensed
product?

TIA,
Moti


Dan Menchaca

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Dec 2, 1994, 11:24:19 PM12/2/94
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Dunno, as for DPS, GNU is working on DGS (DisplayGhostscript).

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Frank Hofmann

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Dec 6, 1994, 9:08:03 AM12/6/94
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Dan Menchaca (Dan_Me...@quickmail.apple.com) wrote:

: In article <3biqme$i...@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>, tha...@Eng.Sun.COM wrote:

: > Is there some way I can get an X server and libraries for X that
: > includes PEX and XIE? Is DPS available for XFree86 or is it a
: licensed
: > product?
: >
: > TIA,
: > Moti

: Dunno, as for DPS, GNU is working on DGS (DisplayGhostscript).

PEX and XIE are included with XFree86 3.1 -- you have to get the Linkkit
and relink the server with the appropriate defines set. The ready-to-use
servers do not include support -- the team knows why, as both are unusably
slow (in my eyes, but I only have a 486/33 DX).

DisplayGhostscript ? I've heard that Display Postscript is oficially part
of Postscript level II, and Aladdin ghostscript 3.x (versions >= 3.0 are no
longer under GNU license) supports full level II functionality. So shouldn't
it be possible to use it as Display postscript interpreter ?
How could one do this ?

Bye

Frank

Andre Beck

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Dec 9, 1994, 1:31:06 PM12/9/94
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In article <3c1r83$n...@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, cip...@wpax01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Frank Hofmann) writes:

|> Dan Menchaca (Dan_Me...@quickmail.apple.com) wrote:
|>
|> : Dunno, as for DPS, GNU is working on DGS (DisplayGhostscript).
|>
|> PEX and XIE are included with XFree86 3.1 -- you have to get the Linkkit
|> and relink the server with the appropriate defines set. The ready-to-use
|> servers do not include support -- the team knows why, as both are unusably
|> slow (in my eyes, but I only have a 486/33 DX).

Hmm, PEX is not of any use as long as it drives no hardware, thus the
SI from R5/R6 cannot be expected to do anything useful. The XIE SI, however,
is for sure faster than doing the same thing with XImages, and thus worth
a try.

|>
|> DisplayGhostscript ? I've heard that Display Postscript is oficially part
|> of Postscript level II, and Aladdin ghostscript 3.x (versions >= 3.0 are no
|> longer under GNU license) supports full level II functionality. So shouldn't
|> it be possible to use it as Display postscript interpreter ?
|> How could one do this ?

That's the problem they have to solve - how to integrate GS (which is
currently a unflexible, big, one-threaded executable) in an X server
in a way that makes sense.

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