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It rendered using display postscript - it wasn't itself written in postscript
by kjuhjk 16y ago
It rendered using display postscript - it wasn't itself written in postscript
- arethuza 16y agoI used HyperNeWS for a few years and it was most certainly mostly written in PostScript - pretty much a work of genius by Arthur van Hoff before he joined Sun and worked on Java. NeWS windows were objects in PostScript - I can remember logging into colleagues NeWS servers using psh and doing things like setting the CTM for a window to rotate it by a few degrees...
- kjuhjk 16y agoWow that's amazing - I always assumed that only the text went to a simple PS renderer. One of my colleages once wrote the universities crest in PS, by hand - and it's a complicated one with lots of lions and crowns.