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From: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen)
Subject: [xpert] new version of ralpage (PostScript previewer) available
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Archive-name: ralpage/21-Aug-90
Original-posting-by: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen)
Original-subject: new version of ralpage (PostScript previewer) available
Archive-site: sics.se [192.16.123.90]
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Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)

(ralpage is a later version of the xps PostScript previewer. ralpage
has much better font support that xps.)

I retrieved the ralpage package from expo on the 15'th of August.
ralpage turned out to have a number of bugs.

I have now fixed some of the bugs. I have also applied Barry Shein's
performance enhancements, and a few changes by John G. Myers that
had not made it into ralpage.

It turned out that there was a problem with user defined fonts, at least
they did not work for me. I "fixed" the problem by turning off the caching
of the user defined fonts (in ShowUser() in font.c).

The new version is available by anonymous ftp from
	sics.se (192.16.123.90)
as
	archive/ralpage.tar.Z

The version on expo had almost non existent installation documentation.
The new version is no better in this respect.

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Johan Widen
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