From funic!news.funet.fi!sunic!dkuug!daimi!pope Wed Feb 19 08:39:25 EET 1992 Article: 5964 of comp.lang.postscript Path: funic!news.funet.fi!sunic!dkuug!daimi!pope From: pope@daimi.aau.dk (Povl Hessellund Pedersen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: PPST on Freedom of Press mac + others Message-ID: <1992Feb11.224743.25199@daimi.aau.dk> Date: 11 Feb 92 22:47:43 GMT Sender: pope@daimi.aau.dk (Povl Hessellund Pedersen) Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark Lines: 38 Hi, Freedom of Press Light for macintosh has used more than 30 minutes doing the PPST. It is still working, so I will look at it when I get home. It did not like the reversepath either. But the error came in the stroke command, that there was nothing to stroke. The Mac I am running on is an SE/30, 8MB RAM (about 1.5 or 2 MB allocated to Freedom of Press), running system 7.0. The machine has a 16MHz 68030 amd 68882 FPU, and the version of Freedom of Press installed uses the FPU directly. Guess this is a good reason to port Ghostscript to Macintosh. A few other results: DecLaser 2250 HP/Apollo 400 HP series 300 PS vers. 51.4 GS 2.3 GS 2.3 Graph 19.6309 0.8105 2.9257 RAM/font 7.9101 2.2421 5.2460 Math 20.7891 0.9062 2.2714 Total 48.3301 3.9589 10.4434 Relative scale: G 2.7 66.1 18.3 R 8.1 28.6 12.2 M 1.9 42.6 17.0 T 3.2 39.5 15.0 I am not sure how fast the HP Series 300 is, but they also have an 68030, so the Mac SE/30 with FoP should not take longer than 15-20 seconds at most running ghostscript. This is a speedup of at least a factor 50 over FoP. Maybe it is because FoP uses 300 DPI all the way, and then does scaling/dithering after that ? -- Povl H. Pedersen (External student at dept. of CS, student at dept. economics) Macintosh programmer, consultant and technical support eco861771@ecostat.aau.dk / pope@daimi.aau.dk