NEWTO LIST: general questions: display postscript

[Alan Coopersmith]

g wrote:
> is display postscript being used?  

Very rarely since both Adobe's commercial version and the open source
clone have been abandoned by their authors for years now.

> is display postscript implemented on top of X11?

It was implemented as an X11 extension, using the X11 protocol for
transport, but providing it's own rendering backend that then pushed
pixels to the device layer.

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	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering