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Article #1318Re: Printers
From: Garrett.Wollman
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:37
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:37
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<<On Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:44:55 -0600 (CST), Todd Inglett <tinglett+@rchland.ibm.com> said: > I think a class similar to graphic (subclass of graphic) to render > postscript would result in the biggest short term win. This should actually be a fairly quick hack, if you are willing to depend on ghostscript. Just create a pixmap or window on the X server, and set the enviornment variable GHOSTVIEW to be either the window ID, or the window ID and the pixmap ID. Then fire up ghostscript with the PostScript code as standard input, and away we go. There's actually a bit more to it than that, but that's the basic idea. This is documented in ghostview-1.4/gs.interface, for anyone interested in actually doing it. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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