Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!hc!hi!cyrus 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 Lines: 35 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. -- @__________@ W. Tait Cyrus (505) 277-0806 /| /| University of New Mexico / | / | Dept of EECE - Hypercube Project @__|_______@ | Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 | | | | | | hc | | e-mail: | @.......|..@ cyrus@hc.dspo.gov or | / | / seismo!unmvax!hi!cyrus @/_________@/