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Re: dps extensions

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From: Peter Davis
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 13:31
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In article <1991Jun25.150652@crocus.medicine.rochester.edu>, ajp2o@crocus.medicine.rochester.edu (Anthony J. Persechini) writes...
>I am trying to build or beg an Xserver for my SGI 4D20G that
>has DPS extensions. Is the code needed to build a server with
>these extensions "freely distributable"? 

You should probably try to contact Adobe Systems.  I think most or all of the
current XDPS extensions came from them.  However, I doubt you'll find anything
from Adobe is "freely distributable."

You might also look into GhostScript from GNU.  This would give you some
DPS-like capabilities.

-pd
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From: davis@3d.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis)
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Subject: Re: dps extensions
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Date: 26 Jun 91 13:31:33 GMT
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