Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!icdoc!qmc-cs!liam From: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Display PostScript Summary: I agree - Display PostScript is fairly useless Message-ID: <518@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Date: 27 Jun 88 15:45:44 GMT References: <336@uva.UUCP> <1089@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> <511@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> <2484@amiga.UUCP> Reply-To: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) Organization: Computer Science Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK. Lines: 25 Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: In article <2484@amiga.UUCP> jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes: >So how do you scroll text in a rectangular window, or won't we need to >do that on the workstations of the future ;^)? > >There must be more. Not according to the stuff I received. How about erasepage 0 1.5 translate do_it_all_again Come on Adobe - you people read this board: is there any value in having the PostScript OUTPUT model in an interactive environment where the intermediate screen displays are of much more value that the final result? How do you scroll a text screen? How do you find out if the cursor is pointing at the object you have just drawn? If you are going to be high and mighty about Sun NeWS, perhaps you have answers to the problems it is trying to address. -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (gw: cs.ucl.edu) Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP LONDON, UK Tel: 01-975 5250