Re: Some perspective from the cheap seats...

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 11:22:49PM +0200, Hendrik Visage wrote:
> Hmm, only saw it now, and noticed nothing similar in the responses,
> but  NeWS, DPS (Display Postscript) and I recall the NEXT Cubes too
> used Postscript for their rendering. This had the benefit of display
> and printers having the same calls to output....
> 

One effort in this area is Carl Worth's Xc/Xr stuff, which is a
PDF-like API. That's essentially what's wanted, is a client-side
PDF-like vector graphics engine that can be retargetted to a block of
memory, a printer, or the X server, using acceleration as
available. Library also needs to be portable to non-UNIX platforms so
that toolkits can use the same engine on all platforms (Xc/Xr hasn't
looked at this yet AFAIK and there may be tricky issues e.g. with
fonts).

Havoc