Re: DPS/NX Question

[Adam Fedor]

Herb W. Swan wrote:

> I would like my application to create a DPS context within the server's DPS
> extension if it available.  I want to use dgs only as a last resort if it the
> DPS extension is not available. 


That's certainly possible. In fact that's exactly what the xdps backend 
for GNUstep does. See the core in xdps/Source/NSDPSContext.m for 
information.

> If I link my application with libdga.a,
> which contains all of Alladin Display Ghostscript, will I always be using
> Ghostscript, and never Adobe's Display Postscript that is built into the server?


I'm not familiar with libdga.a, did you mis-type that? The libdps.a 
library just contains the 'client' library which allows you to connect 
the the DPS server (either the builtin server or DGS).




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