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> Every Windows box around me has GhostScript and GSView
> installed...

I suspect these Windows boxes are setup by native Unix men. I've yet to see the
first Windows box with GhostScript or GSView on it, and while I do not claim to
have seen 'em all, I've been around a day or two, too.

It's amazing, how little both worlds know what the other world looks like. And I
do speak from experience, I *am experiencing* how little I know about what your
world looks like. Adding to this thick fog is the fact that I'm not even coding
in C, really. I haven't touched C for over 7 years or so (except for translation
from C, not to C, and for compiling a *limited* number of 3rd party stuff like
LibTiff and LibJpeg.). I use Delphi, ObjectPascal. To us, Delphinians, these
things don't even come to mind. Most of us would have a very hard time even
compiling them, if we were forced to use them. And next, there's the problem of
header translation and such... Not exactly trivial. In my world, when someone
suggests using these, which is rare, he usually points to precompiled stuff, and
warns that even this is a lot of trouble to set up and use.

Which is probably why native Windows men like myself don't even think of
GhostScript en Enscript and the like, for a task like this, but naturally use
windows GDI for rendering. I believe I'm not an exception in the world I live
in, quite the contrary.



Joris Van Damme
info@awaresystems.be
http://www.awaresystems.be
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