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1Second test release of pstoedit 3.31 for OS/2
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3This is an update of the test releases for pstoedit 3.21 and
43.30. Nothing spectacular new in here.
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6These files are compiled and (somewhat) tested on a single
7machine using a German Warp 4(.5), FP 15.
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9I make them available for anybody who is interested in
10testing them. I am interested in any feedback. Send your
11comments to
12
13 thoffman@zappa.sax.de
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15Please do not redistribute these files (i.e.,do not upload
16them to public FTP servers).
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18I would like to note that I added some minor modifications
19to code that resulted from the work of C.Jaeschke.
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21To get this program working, pstoedit.exe must find
22pstoedit.dll and gsdll2.dll.
23I put them into the LIBPATH. Also make the runtime
24libraries of emx available.
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26pstoedit.dll is "gvpm-ready". In cooperation w/ R.Lang this
27led to integration into this graphical tool
28(This version works w/ "stock" gvpm 4.0 at least).
29As of this moment, gvpm still contains the pstoedit.dll
30of version 3.21. You can simply copy this new dll over it.
31(Check: when the Mathematica backend is listed, you are using
32 v3.31)
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34NEW: pstoedit.exe looks for configuration data into
35pstoedit.ini, too. You receive a template of this ini with
36this release.
37Change it according to your system's values (use regedit2
38for this) and put it alongside
39with pstoedit.exe or in the directory of the SYSTEM_INI, i.e.
40os2.ini (e.g., C:\OS2).
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42Search sequence changed: pstoedit looks for the GS_LIB dirs
43in the following order:
441. look for pstoedit.ini (see above)
452. look for gvpm.ini (the ASCII ini from gvpm)
463. look for the environment variable GS_LIB
474. look for a built-in value
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49Buglet removed:
50pstoedit does not any longer create empty pstoedit.ini files
51in your working directory (did this before, if it could not
52find an pstoedit.ini in the system or exe directory.).
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54If you are using pstoedit.ini then you have to update the
55path of the ghostscript lib when upgrading these.
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57The main differences to the "old" version for OS/2
58(must have been around v.2.60) are:
59
60-no longer necessary to use pstoedit.cmd: use pstoedit.exe
61-windowing code for met removed (pstoedit only writes to an
62 output file, which you can look at using OS/2's picture
63 viewer)
64-info output goes to STDERR, you can redirect this output
65-limited support for images added (mostly taken from the
66 wmf driver code)
67-some of the "*nix formats" included (call pstoedit -help to
68 see a list of supported formats)
69-added pstoedit.inf (Thanks to A.Zabolotny for html2ipf).
70-made using autoconf et.al. with (not so) minor modifications of
71 the resulting Makefile, i.e. no hand crafted Makefile
72 used (Thanks to H.C.Chu for autoconf).
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74New in comparison with v3.21 is the added Mathematica backend.
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76The directory examples contains the *ps files from the
77original (source) distribution and output created for the
78met device. Compare the files to find out about the capa-
79bilities and limits of this program.
80Known deficencies are:
81-image boundaries cannot be skewed (the content is rotated,
82 although): see imagetest.[ps,met]
83-"stairs" in text are not shown: see largetextspace.[ps,met]
84-text orientations are not always correct: see textmat.[ps,met]
85-content of multiple pages is printed on one page: twopages.[ps,met]
86-path handling fails: pathtest.[ps,met]
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89January 2002
90Thomas Hoffmann
91thoffman@zappa.sax.de
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