Re: scs2pdf?

["Jason M. Felice" <jfelice@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rich Duzenbury wrote:
> 
> I'm interested in scs2ps (postscript) more so than scs2pdf.  At least, I
> know alot more about ps than I do pdf.  If I can find the time, I would be
> interested in at least considering working on such a beast.  Don't know if
> anyone else is interested...

I thought PDF was simply a special case of PostScript, although I could
be wrong.  In any case, there is a ps2pdf filter installed on most 'NIX
boxes.  I've got one here from a rather plain Debian install.  It's been
installed on every RedHat box I've ever needed it on as well.

I haven't much time to help, really, but I do have the handy-dandy
PostScript language reference manual, and I know it well enough to fill
form data into forms and do minor layout tweaks for printers.

> 
> I guess my first question would be: Is the SCS protocol documented
> somewhere public where I could take a look and see how difficult it is?

I beleive it is (let Mike answer this question), although I haven't seen
it.  I can add, though, that scs2ascii is very straight-forward, and you
can infer much about SCS from the source.  There is basically a C
function for every SCS function, the stream gets parsed and these
functions triggered.  This should be really easy to map to PostScript
with a bunch of PostScript macros.

The cool thing is that you can format PostScript to a lot of things,
including fax transmissions, gifs, X11 displays, encapsulated
PostScript, half a dozen different kinds of tiffs, pgm, pnm, pcx, and
any printer you can print to on Linux using ghostscript ;-)

> 
> Regards,
> Rich
> 

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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