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From: cyrus@hi.UUCP (Tait Cyrus)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: PostScript Interpreter
Message-ID: <20406@hi.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 17:55:54 EST
Article-I.D.: hi.20406
Posted: Sun Nov 22 17:55:54 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Nov-87 04:39:31 EST
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Keywords: postscript, font


I have been playing with the PostScript Interpreter that was posted
a few weeks back and find that I like it.  I have a few gripes though.

	1) I am running on a SUN 3/160.  Although I compiled everything
	   with CFLAGS = -O -f68881, I find that it is still VERY SLOW.
	   Currently it takes about 10-20 seconds for it to initialize
	   itself and then another 20-30 seconds (or longer) to display
	   the first page (I am previewing output from ptroff).  This
	   seems a bit long to me.  Has anyone been able to get it to
	   run any faster?

	2) The Apple LaserWriter Plus knows about many different fonts.
	   The interpreter only knows about a very few ( 7 to be exact).
	   Is there any way to let the interpreter know about ALL of the
	   fonts?

I had several problems, at first, with trying to preview the output from
ptroff because a lot of fonts were used in definitions.  When the previewer
incountered these, it generated an error (of course).  As a result of
these errors, the interpreter was put into a 'weird' state and would
not correctly interpret the rest of the file.



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