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From: Gregory H. Miller
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1989 22:39
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1989 22:39
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I'm excited about this program! good work! There are, however, a few improvements I'd like to suggest. First: It would be nice if you didn't have to have ghost.ps, gdevs.ps, and uglyfont.ps in your current directory. To overcome this: 1) rename ghost.ps to ghost_dist.ps gfonts.ps to gfonts_dist.ps gs.c to gs_dist.ps 2) edit in ghost_dist.ps, change explicit reference to files by prepending GHOSTHOME/, e.g., "(gdevs.ps) run" becomes "(GHOSTHOME/gdevs.ps) run". Same for (gfonts.ps) run. in gfonts_dist.ps prepend GHOSTHOME/ to the file name uglyfont.ps in gs_dist.c prepend GHOSTHOME/ to the open statement for ghost.ps in makefile, include a declaration like GHOSTHOME = /usr/local/ghostscript and include a make/depend like gs.c: gs_dist.c sed -e s,GHOSTHOME,$GHOSTHOME,g <gs_dist.c >gs.c sed -e s,GHOSTHOME,$GHOSTHOME,g <ghost_dist.ps >ghost.ps sed -e s,GHOSTHOME,$GHOSTHOME,g <gdevs_dist.ps >gdevs.ps this allows for keeping the setup files in a single standard place. Second: It would be nice if the graphics primitives were a little more primitive. I tried to write a driver for a tektronics terminal emulator. I ran into the problem that I couldn't write in black (erase) mode. I ended up buffering an image of the whole page in memory, then dumping the whole mess when the sync command was sent. Keep up the good work!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!EXPET.GPS.CALTECH.EDU!greg From: greg@EXPET.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Gregory H. Miller) Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8909062239.AA12553@expet.gps.caltech.edu> Date: 6 Sep 89 22:39:23 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 43