Re: Please could there be a web implementation of xpost

[luserdroog .]

I think I fixed the posting to the group part. I had to find the option to enable email posting.

And yes, a png output seems more generally useful.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:59 PM, Vincent Torri <vincen...@gmail.com> wrote:

hey

Github or drone.io (for continuous integration) can host source
tarballs, hence binaries too.

about output, maybe we can add a png driver

Btw, is it normal that this discussion does not appear in google
groups (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xpost-discuss) ?

Vincent

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 3:08 AM, luserdroog . <luser...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know about the Emscripten backend to llvm which can produce javascript
> output, but I have not actually used it. We're still figuring out how to
> create and host release binaries and the .js compiled version could be made
> as one of the OS versions.
>
> On the other hand, pdf output is still not in the immediate future. I'll
> need to read-up on pdf internals and seriously redesign the whole graphics
> back-end.  Our current efforts are focused on correctness and portability
> and filling-out the level 1 operators so we can claim standard-conformance.
> So a web-style interface would probably be limited (initially) to producing
> a simple bitmap format (like .ppm).
>
> Josh (droog)
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Vincent Torri <vincen...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> hello
>>
>> technically speaking, it should be possible, as there is an API. But,
>> i have no idea on how to do that, though :) If you have some hints,
>> that would be welcome
>>
>> Vincent
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Julian D. A. Wiseman
>> <jdawi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Please could there be a web implementation of xpost? Perhaps resembling
>> > http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert.htm
>> >
>> > Yes, I could download and attempt to compile, and on every new version
>> > re-download and re-attempt re-compilation. Yes, I could. But …
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[Julian D. A. Wiseman]

Hmm. Perhaps xpost isn’t yet really ready for me. Partly because PDF output wanted; and partly because I use some non-1 operators including << >> clipsave cliprestore execform glyphshow instroke languagelevel product rectfill rectstroke revision selectfont setpagedevice undef upath.

[Vincent Torri]

We are lacking of help, so if you want to contribute, we would be glad to receive some patches :-)