[gs-devel] Code history of GhostScript - port to Newton

[mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp]

Dear Mr. Jim Witte,

>I'm thinking of taking a look at the code of GS to see if it would be 
>remotely possible to port some version to the Apple Newton in C++ 

sounds quite interesting. Although I never touched with Apple
Newton, I heard that the resource available on Newton is quite
limited - according to http://www.ericlindsay.com/palmtop/new110.htm,
available memory is a few megabytes. possibly it's smaller than
modern PostScript printer, there might be no space to store
additional PS fonts. By using PCMCIA cards, you can use big storage?

>What I'd like to know is what version of the source should
>I look at trying to port?

>I'd like such a port to be able to render PDF files (either
>directly, or with a desktop translator like the Palm PDF reader
>does). Does that put any lower limits on the code version I
>should look at?

To deal with PDF, the lowest version would be gs5.x. Although
it's insufficient to deal with latest PDF documents, I suppose
still there are many UNIX users who uses precompiled gs5.x
binaries.

BTW, If you've already consider about porting of xpdf to Newton,
please let me know.

Regards,

mpsuzuki