On 26 Apr 00 at 0:45, Michael Polak wrote:
>>
>>I believe that PostScript is currenty best (relatively-)open standard
>>for high-resolution static graphical output. Well, Adobe should be paid
>>for implementation of renderer, but authors of GhostScript overcame it
>>by saying, thatt GhostScript reads "PostScript-like" input, and avoided
>>branding it as PostScript renderer ;-) (Maybe I should declare, that
>>Arachne can display GIF-like image files, to overcame patent problems
>>forever ;-)))
I see where FreeDOS page has gone GIF-free at their site. Works fine
with Arachne and their PNG graphics. Also I think Unisys' patent
expires in 2003, IIRC reading about this on FreeDOS site. According
to the site Unisys is trying to charge The Weather Channel site over
$3 million dollars to use GIF images.
>>There is port of GhostScript to DOS, but it is same problem as with PDF
>>viewer for DOS: only very old version are ported to DOS. I can undestand
>>it, because keeping software to run in both 16bit and 32bit versions is
>>realy hard. I am writing this from DOS build of Arachne, which fails
>>to display IKN files in HTML page as side effect of some changes I did
>>to be able to display them in Linux version :(((( But I won't give up,
>>I want to write portable DOS/Linux software. (possibly not only Arachne,
>>but also other utilities..)
Thanks you Michael for your continued support of us DOSosaurs. Keep
up the good work.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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