On 10/3/06, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
out of idle interest, why has there never been a replacement? is it really that hard?
That's a great question. I Googled for some leads: "Saffron includes an all-Java PostScript(r) interpreter" http://www.dynalivery.com/customersupport/Saffron_FAQs/SaffronInfo.html "The RoPS interpreter is a Microsoft Windows implementation of the PostScript programming language interpreter" http://www.rops.org/ There is some interesting detail stuff here that I'd want to re-read if I were going to write an interpreter from scratch: http://www.anastigmatix.net/postscript/direct.html This might also make for a good jumping-off point: http://serl.cs.colorado.edu/~arcadia/Software/tps.html ...but from the looks of it, maybe it would be easier to "fix" ghostscript by making it faster/slimmer/etc. I wonder if it runs better on some architectures than others? If so, sounds like a good job for a cpu server. -Jack
