[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Mark Berryman]

On 12/14/22 4:15 AM, Andreas Gruhl wrote:
> Andreas Gruhl schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 um 19:18:54 UTC+1:
>> Mark Berryman schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 um 18:32:11 UTC+1:
>>> On 12/12/22 4:53 AM, Andreas Gruhl wrote:
>>>> Here comes a real life question:
>>>>
>>>> We have successfully ported our first application (Planning for public transport companies, 1.6 Mio Lines of Pascal) to X86.
>>>>
>>>> But: the application generates HTML and Postscript files. On Alpha and Itanium we can directly show these to the user via an old Mozilla browser and via Ghostview/Ghostscript. The browser is automatically launched by our application and directed to the correct page. Everything works just fine.
>>>>
>>>> Where can we get an equivalent of these display products for X86?
>>>>
>>>> Well, we have Sourcecode for Ghostscript and will try to build it - it doesn't look easy though.
>>>>
>>>> But we see no chance of raising an HTML browser on X86. We do not need all the latest bells and whistles. The software might be 10 years of age or even older - if it can be built on Alpha or Itanium, we could try building it on X86, provided we had access to the source code.
>>>>
>>>> And before you ask, why we not simply use display software on the user's desktop, here is my answer: the only connection between the desktop and our VMS server is via the X Protocol. This is commonly routed through products like Citrix or Teamviewer and the Exceed display server.
>>>> So interactions between the VMS server and the desktop are quite limited.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you.
>>> https://www.theberrymans.com/php_kits/ghostscript-9_56_1.zip has
>>> ghostscript for x86.
>> Hey, that's good news. I will gladly test it (as soon as I can reach theberrymans again).
>> Thank You
>> Andreas
> Sorry Mark, I still cannot reach theberrymans.com via https. Ping works.
> Btw: My own attempt of building Ghostscript 9.05 got stuck because MMK delivered a register dump when generating gv_class.h.

Try it now.

Mark Berryman