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Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2

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In article <4db60917$0$12958$c3e8da3$9deca2c3@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> writes: 

> You are correct that after 7.2, display postscript was no longer
> available on VMS. Prior to 7.3, there was a "view" utility that let you
> view postscript as well as CDA documents. So you woudln't need
> ghostscript for it.

OK, but this seems more or less independent of GS, GV etc.

> 
> 2- Your font encodings can be greatly simplied since Postscript Level 2:
> (and some would say it isn't even necessary).

Thanks; I'll investigate.  The plotting program was written (not by me;
I inherited it from a former colleague) mostly in the late 1980s in
Fortran 77.  I don't know what the PostScript standard was like then.  I 
have seen many plots made with PGPLOT, gnuplot etc but prefer the ones 
made with this code, both for their appearance and for the comfort 
(there is an ASCII-menu interface where one can change different stuff, 
save it, load previously saved stuff from a file etc).

> It is quite likely that the older version on VMS doesn't have the same
> font substutution support. Removing the "R" at the end of font names
> would likely help.

That might be enough, at least for now.  As I said, I'm not sure how 
"good" the PostScript is, especially in relation to newer font schemes.  
I could change the code and recompile, but that would take a while 
(considering that the code wasn't written by me).

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viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-25 19:47 +0000
  Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-25 15:37 -0500
    Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-25 21:44 +0000
  Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-25 21:49 +0100
    Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-25 21:48 +0000
      Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-26 08:29 +0100
        Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-26 07:58 +0000
          Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-26 10:35 +0100
            Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-26 11:23 +0000
              Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 m.kraemer@gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) - 2011-04-26 11:36 +0000
  Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-04-25 19:51 -0400
    Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-26 07:56 +0000
  Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 JOUKJ <joukj@hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> - 2011-04-26 08:42 +0200
    Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-26 08:33 +0100
      Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 JOUKJ <joukj@hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> - 2011-04-26 09:58 +0200

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