CyberPeasant wrote:
> Well, this has its merits, reminding me of batch graphics techniques
> used in the ancient days. About the only drawback i see is the
> inability (true?) of modifying the image without starting the rendering
> from scratch.
>
> I will now exhibit a laughable ignorance of Postscript: Suppose
> the application were a strip chart. As data become available, could
> commands to draw the next line segment be sent to gs and have it draw
> on the screen in ~realtime? Or is it "page granular"?
You can use the `copypage' command to display the current framebuffer
without clearing it, so you can create a new page by drawing on top of
the previous one.
Also, ghostscript's X11 driver shows the page as it's being
constructed; you don't need a showpage or copypage to get it
displayed.
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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
