> sounds like a job for pic(1) - A friend of troff. Troff has a > postscript backend,
pic if fine, but I think it can't do areas delimited by bezier curves, and filled w/color+hash, does it? BTW, ps2pdf (it is a part of gs, isn't it?) emitted a (huge) bitmap wrapped in pdf, last time I used it ... did anything change? the dichotomy in raster/vector always irritated me (e.g., why do we have grap/graph, when a raster/vector backends would do the work, for all alikes, cleaner, imho)...but it is another story... Well. I followed the hints given earlier in this thread, and, voila, everything compiles and links fine by now, the update is on contrib the ugly rendering of hash patterns is not due to the porting issues, it is present in original (gnu-ish) distro as well ... will need some diving into PS language, I'm afraid... Thank you all for help, ++pac
