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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: Will ghostview ever be ported?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.101357.20347@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 10:13:57 GMT
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- Todd Henderson (tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- : During the summer I worked with ghostview on a SGI machine. It seemed like
- : a nice program similar to ghostscript. I kind of assumed they were related.
- :
- : At any rate, has anyone else used it and is there a chance it may get ported
- : to OS/2.
-
- ghostview is probably too much tied up in X-isms to be ported directly,
- but i expect someone will produce something similar of OS/2.
-
- there used to be a preliminary windows version of ghostscript which
- had some similarities to the ghostview interface.
-
- given that the OS/2 ghostscripts have already split the main gs process
- from the i/o (not sure which bit actually does the file handling to
- grab the input), then it may just be a matter of rewriting the front
- end to have a nice button-ed interface and abiliyt to scan files
- for EPS structuring comments etc.
-
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