[9fans] PostScript rendering on Plan9

[9fans] PostScript rendering on Plan9

[tlaronde]

Hello,

Just for my information, on what version of, I think, Ghostscript, Plan9
PostScript rendering is based?

Because, under Plan9, the rendering for example of the AMS-TeX
guide (the package AMS-TeX for kerTeX has been added) is absolutely
beautiful, while the same thing rendered on an Unix with a "modern"
version of gv(1) is not that thrilling (glyphes not "bold" enough
to my taste; they look meagre, mean), while the fonts used are all
included by kertex/dvips(1) from precisely the T1 flavor.

Has something special be done on Plan9 about gs? Or is simply the rio
support for font better---or the rasterizing routines better?

Or perhaps this is simply because it is an "old" gs(1) without modern
"improvements"...

And to simply page the file and see it rendered is an advertising for
Plan9!

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Re: [9fans] PostScript rendering on Plan9

[tlaronde]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 10:39:32AM +0100, David du Colombier wrote:
> > Just for my information, on what version of, I think, Ghostscript,
> > Plan9 PostScript rendering is based?
>
> It seems to be Ghostscript 8.53 (2005-10-20).

And on my NetBSD, Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-09-05).

I still wonder if this is due to the Ghostscript version, to the
windowing system of the host or something else.

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Re: [9fans] PostScript rendering on Plan9

[David du Colombier]

> Just for my information, on what version of, I think, Ghostscript,
> Plan9 PostScript rendering is based?

It seems to be Ghostscript 8.53 (2005-10-20).

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