Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Path: utzoo!sq!ian
From: ian@sq.sq.com (Ian F. Darwin)
Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.181642.21964@sq.sq.com>
Organization: Me? Organized? You jest...
References: <9011010052.AA05115@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <7883@adobe.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 18:16:42 GMT
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Paul Asente (asente@adobe.com) writes:
> >... NeWS (and presumably Display PostScript) ...
> >impose the PostScript imaging model on their clients, which may not
> >be appropriate for some applications.
> 
> Not true for Display PostScript, at least as it exists on DEC and IBM boxes
> (i.e. as an X extension...

Similar capability exists, of course, in Sun's Openwindows 2; you can create
an XView window and render PostScript code into it, mixing XView/Xlib calls
and PostScript calls. See ~openwin/share/xvps.ps for explanation and sample
code.

