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>There's also xps from the contrib software that comes with X11R4.
>I've had better luck with xps than with GhostScript.

I don't think there's actually been a working version of GhostScript
distributed.  The latest version available (unless you can get through
to the right person) seems too closely tied to some wierd development
environment.  I understand some people have managed to get working
versions somehow, and they make it sound quite good.

But the developer keeps promising to post a much improved version in
"the next few days" and then goes underground for another six months.

To make matters worse the versions that have come out so far haven't
lent themselves to making diffs at all -- everything changes.  So it's
apparently been very difficult for those that have tried to offer
assistance.

So, maybe someone that's gotten a recent version can make it available
somehow and we can take it from there?

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>To make quick and dirty PostScript to raster converter, one can take
>xps and change the draws on windows to draws on pixmaps and read back
>the pixmap when you're done drawing.  I tried, and it's pretty
>straightforward.  If there's interest, I could put together some
>diffs.

My understanding is that GhostScript will do this too.

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>Caveat, xps is not a complete PostScript implementation.  The only
>reasonably complete X PostScript previewer that I've seen is DEC's
>dxpsview.  (For me, "reasonably complete" means able to display
>PostScript generated from TeX and dvi2ps.)
>

And I understand that GhostScript may be able to do this too.  To
measure completeness, I'd like to see it be able to make a LaserJet
look like a LaserWriter... or any other device.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com