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- From: Garrett.Wollman@UVM.EDU
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- Subject: Re: Printers
- Message-ID: <9211101837.AA28808@sadye.emba.uvm.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 18:37:49 GMT
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- <<On Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:44:55 -0600 (CST), Todd Inglett <tinglett+@rchland.ibm.com> said:
-
- > I think a class similar to graphic (subclass of graphic) to render
- > postscript would result in the biggest short term win.
-
- This should actually be a fairly quick hack, if you are willing to
- depend on ghostscript. Just create a pixmap or window on the X
- server, and set the enviornment variable GHOSTVIEW to be either the
- window ID, or the window ID and the pixmap ID. Then fire up
- ghostscript with the PostScript code as standard input, and away we
- go.
-
- There's actually a bit more to it than that, but that's the basic
- idea. This is documented in ghostview-1.4/gs.interface, for anyone
- interested in actually doing it.
-
- -GAWollman
-
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