Re: Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)?

From	ken <ken@spamcop.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)?
Date	2017-11-06 17:23 +0000
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References	<84941585-1e78-490c-bec5-c7cc4904a899@googlegroups.com> <061eefc2-c614-4f78-b82a-2bcf73ca68eb@googlegroups.com>

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In article <061eefc2-c614-4f78-b82a-2bcf73ca68eb@googlegroups.com>, 
luser.droog@gmail.com says...

> Another problem is licencing. Unless Artifex themselves want to 
develop and 
> distribute a plugin for one or more browsers, then someone has to licence the
> interpreter in order to offer it bundled up. Or Adobe, .... But there's no
> real technical or economic need for anyone to do this. 

That's not completely the csase. Ghostscript *is* open source (AGPL) so 
if someone wanted to develop a plugin, and it was AGPL, then there 
wouldn't be a problem with the licence. In fact if the plugin forked a 
process (which it probably isn't allowed ot do :-) then it wouldn't even 
need to link to Ghostscript.

Lots of Linux applications use Ghostscript as a plugin, or fork it as a 
process.

Artifex almost certainly won't do it, we don't have the engineering 
resource to do so.

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Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)? youtube@beedwi.e4ward.com - 2017-11-04 10:30 -0700
  Re: Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)? "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2017-11-04 19:21 +0100
    Re: Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)? helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) - 2017-11-04 19:46 +0000
      Re: Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)? "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2017-11-05 05:36 +0100
  Re: Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2017-11-04 12:51 -0700
    Re: Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)? youtube@beedwi.e4ward.com - 2017-11-04 13:27 -0700
      Re: Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2017-11-06 17:24 +0000
    Re: Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2017-11-06 17:23 +0000
  Re: Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)? Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2017-11-05 10:48 -0700
  Re: Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2017-11-06 19:37 +0000

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