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Article #5599PS Utilities (was: Re: Diatribe, revisited)
From: Daniel T. Poirot
Date: Wed, 08 May 1991 14:13
Date: Wed, 08 May 1991 14:13
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In article <1991May5.214431.27894@neon.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes: > Adobe should write and make >available a simple C routine that properly reads and parses a properly >formed PostScript file, passing resource requirements up to the next higher >level and performing any other relevant operations. >Heck, I can envision a single tool---a C program with a few prolog >files---that would take example output from an application and test it in >all of the above ways, and print out an analysis of the PostScript and >suggestions for improvements. >-tom How about even an INDENT program? I have had to look at postscript files from all sorts of sources. If there was a program like indent(1) that would at least know where to put in newlines, random ps files could be filtered into something you could at least READ. -- Daniel Poirot poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov NASA JSC "The mind is a terrible thing." ER3 tel: (713)483-8793 Houston, TX 77058 fax: (713)483-3204
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!eos!aio!poirot From: poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel T. Poirot) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: PS Utilities (was: Re: Diatribe, revisited) Summary: Do you have them? Message-ID: <1991May8.141344.17298@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Date: 8 May 91 14:13:44 GMT References: <1991May5.214431.27894@neon.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel T. Poirot) Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center Lines: 23