From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] gs Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:39:25 -0400 From: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: c498f8a2-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 In first edition, there was a home-grown postscript interpreter, psi, but it was replaced by gs in second edition. The degree of difficulty depends upon what `it' is. gs can interpret and emit Postscript or PDF of varying versions, and includes a substantial set of Postscript fonts. As I recall, just getting a Postscript interpreter to render reasonably quickly (er, less than pessimally slowly) is quite a job. PDF seems to be an attempt to rein in the full generality of the Postscript language. Perhaps the people who make Forth interpreters could make a fast Postscript interpreter, though I suspect that graphics is the bottleneck.