[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[William]

On Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 8:10:24 PM UTC+1, Mark Berryman wrote:
> I don't have ghostview but I do have gv if that will work for you. You 
> can find it in the same directory: https://theberrymans.com/php_kits/ 
> Mark Berryman

I think that ghostview was renamed to gv around the 2.7 release in 1996.
I have a gv 3.7.4 fork with a few years of fixes at https://github.com/william8000/gv
If you send me a pull request with VMS patches, I could add them.
There is also gsview for windows, which I think is completely separate.

As far as I know, ghostscript/ghostpdl is going to continue supporting PS, PDF, and PCL.
The recent gs 10 release has a new PDF parser written in C instead of PS for better performance and for cleaner implementations of PDF features that don't exist in PS, but they are not dropping support for PS.
They have a separate MuPDF project PDF, XPS, and EPUB.

The CHANGES file in xpdf 4.0.4 has an entry "Removed VMS build support (it hasn't been updated in ages)." under "3.04 (2014-may-28)".

Someone mentioned DECWindows. Isn't that just DEC's name for X11?

There are ports of VNC to VMS. 
http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=40&thread_id=447
https://www.ing.iac.es//~docs/external/vnc_docs/platforms.html

William