Re: Who bakes the Best PostScript?

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From: Tim Theisen
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:26

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bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:
> Talking of which, why are there still losts of programs around that
> understand DSC 2.0, but not DSC 3.0? Hasn't it been two or three years
> since the revision was made?  I am thinking particularly of page imposition
> software (can ANY read DSC 3.0?), PostScript previewers etc.

Ghostview (an X11 user interface to ghostscript) understands all versions
of the DSC.  In fact it will properly parse many non-conformities as well.
The only known deficiency is that although it does recognize the
"%%PageOrder: Special" comment, it does not give the document the special
treatment requested.  I plan to remedy this in the next release.

Ghostview-1.4.1 can be obtained via anonymous ftp from
ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-1.4.1.tar.Z.

...Tim

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