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by **Paul Dowset** » Sat, 03 Feb 2001 02:20:28

I understand that ghostscript is useful for converting postscript output to
a format that is understandable by various

printers (ie PCL, ESC etc), but are there any other uses that anyone could
share with me that I haven't thought of?

Many thanks for your help!
Paul

by **Kaelin Colclasur** » Sat, 03 Feb 2001 03:33:29

> I understand that ghostscript is useful for converting postscript output to
> a format that is understandable by various

> printers (ie PCL, ESC etc), but are there any other uses that anyone could
> share with me that I haven't thought of?

> Many thanks for your help!
> Paul

I've primarily used it in conjunction with `gv' or `ghostview' to view
postscript documents under X...

-- Kaelin

by **Igor Sobrad** » Sat, 03 Feb 2001 04:58:21

> I've primarily used it in conjunction with `gv' or `ghostview' to view
> postscript documents under X...

If you are using Xsun it will support Display PostScript. Ghostscript
and GhostView can be used to display more modern PostScript files but
the operating system provides DPS-based applications like pageview or
the dtimage tool.

Best regards,
Igor.

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by **salt** » Sat, 03 Feb 2001 05:07:57

Conversion of postscript to PDF.

> I understand that ghostscript is useful for converting postscript output to
> a format that is understandable by various

> printers (ie PCL, ESC etc), but are there any other uses that anyone could
> share with me that I haven't thought of?

> Many thanks for your help!
> Paul

by **Roland Main** » Sat, 03 Feb 2001 17:49:03

> > I've primarily used it in conjunction with `gv' or `ghostview' to view
> > postscript documents under X...

> If you are using Xsun it will support Display PostScript. Ghostscript
> and GhostView can be used to display more modern PostScript files but
> the operating system provides DPS-based applications like pageview or
> the dtimage tool.

Will DPS someday be "updated" to support these newer versions of
PostScript ?

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by **Peter C. Tribb** » Sat, 03 Feb 2001 18:27:30

Quote:
> Will DPS someday be "updated" to support these newer versions of
> PostScript ?

I though DPS had been EOL'ed already?

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by **John D Groenve** » Sun, 04 Feb 2001 02:07:09

Quote:>Will DPS someday be "updated" to support these newer versions of
>PostScript ?

I think that Adobe has EOL'd DPS.
John

by **Igor Sobrad** » Sun, 04 Feb 2001 03:44:21

Quote:> I think that Adobe has EOL'd DPS.

You are right, I asked that question when compiling a DVI viewer
to support DPS. DPS was good but now it is EOL. It do not
support features like transparencies.

Best regards,
Igor.

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by **Roland Main** » Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:46:16

> |> >Will DPS someday be "updated" to support these newer versions of
> |> >PostScript ?
> |>
> |> I think that Adobe has EOL'd DPS.
> |
> |Did Sun EOL DPS yet (please... noooo) ?

> Not yet, but it's not spending effort on adding new features to it either.

Are there any planns to EOL DPS in the "near" future (Solaris 2.9, 2.10)
?
BTW: Is there a way to get simply code examples how to display PS (not
EPS - PostScript2!!) using the DPS extension ?

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by **Alan Coopersmit** » Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:47:04

|Are there any planns to EOL DPS in the "near" future (Solaris 2.9, 2.10)?

No EOL decision has been announced yet - if/when it is EOL'ed, you'll
see it in the release notes.

|BTW: Is there a way to get simply code examples how to display PS (not
|EPS - PostScript2!!) using the DPS extension ?

http://dps.sourceforge.net/ is the best current source of DPS
information that I'm aware of. There are docs on Adobe's site at
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/technotes/postscript.html
as well.

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