SUMMARY: Display Postscript & Answerbook

From: Clive Haworth (CHaworth@mktg.uk.mdis.com)
Date: Wed May 04 1994 - 10:41:46 CDT


Original Posting:

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Hi out there,

Got a bit of a problem @ the moment.

I have a headless SparcServer 1000 with the entire
distribution of Solaris 2.3 loaded.

I need to view answerbook - so my immediate thoughts were - it's been
reimplemented in X11R5 with the DPS X extensions.

So following this line of thinking the next step was
maybe it will display on my Silicon Graphics Indy2
runnig Irix 5.2 or indeed any other X Server with DPS
capabilities ?

Half true.

For some strange reason the docviewer window (DPS) appears
with a fixed size, overlapping courier font. It's so bad
I can't read it.

I copied the usual 75dpi openlook fonts onto the SG to get
XView applications going - and that end of things is fine.

I checked the documentation to find DPS uses it's own
scalable fonts - so the questions are:

HAS ANYBODY SORTED THIS ONE ?

DOES ANYBODY UNDERSTRAND DPS FONT HANDLING ?

IS THIS THE DAWN OF A NEW BLACK ART IN THE UNIX CAMP ?

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Not much response to this on, but it was worth a try.

Basically Answerbook DOES display on an X Server running DPS.
The answerbook must be the one shipped with Solaris 2.3
It was re-implmented in DPS for that release, there's no
NeWS in it now - for all those that didn't know this.

It seems that the control of DPS scalable fonts on X Servers
is not a very well known subject.

I contacted Sun (UK help desk) with the problem and they
FAXED me some info on NeWS .....(:-()

Looks like I'll have to buy a Sun monitor and GX card !!

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Clive Haworth

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