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- From: gtaylor@jade.tufts.edu (Grant Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Where is Ghostscript
- Message-ID: <GTAYLOR.92Nov16000906@jade.tufts.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 05:11:48 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.134002.1@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu> <1e3lupINNs8e@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- <1992Nov15.212430.9544@mail.cornell.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: eds2@cornell.edu's message of 15 Nov 92 21:24:30 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov15.212430.9544@mail.cornell.edu> eds2@cornell.edu (Eric Scharff) writes:
-
- In article <1e3lupINNs8e@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> James Michael Chacon,
- probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu writes:
- >From what I hear ghostscript compiles out of the box. So you can get that
- >from any site that mirrors prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu directory. Try
- >wuarchive first. As far as ghostview goes, it should also be on that site
- >and should compile with very little problems.
-
- Does ghostscript require its own set of fonts, or can it use X Fonts?
-
- yes, ghostscript wants its own fonts... however, i don't believe
- that they are actually necessary if you intend to be printing out
- primarily tex output (ie, dvips->gs), as i think dvips soutputs only
- graphics for it's postscript output. (i could be wrong, but how else
- would the output fit the billing of device independant and look the
- same as xdvi, which uses the tex fonts - in any case, gs won't use X
- fonts)
-
- of course, if you want to print more normal postscript containing
- text actually as text+(font location style, etc) then you'll need the
- fonts, which are @prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/ghostscript-fonts#.##.tar.Z
- (or something to that affect. this file is over a meg, and expands to
- about 2 megs worth of fonts...
-
- -grant
-
- --
- +----------------+------------------------------+-------------------------+
- Grant Taylor / it's time for martian's rest / (gtaylor@Jade.Tufts.Edu)
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- #include<stdio.h> /* gcc this, and all your dreams will come true (maybe!) */
- static int pp(char*a){int i=0;while(a[i])putchar(a[i++]-1);}main(){int a,b,c;
- char *d[]={"ep","efbvy","epvhi","epf"},*i[]={"j","fzf","jhi"},*f[]={"G","Qi"}
- ;pp("Jo\x21nfnpsz\x21pg\x21Jttbd\x21 Btjnpw///");putchar('\n');putchar('\n');
- for(a=0;a<2;a++)for(b=0;b<3;b++){for(c=0;c<4;c++){if(c==1)putchar('\t');pp(f
- [a]);pp(i[b]);pp(d[c]);putchar('\t');if(a==0&&b==0&&(c==1||c==2))putchar('\t'
- );}putchar('\n');}} /* sorry kids, this one is only worth one bonus point */
-