recondas wrote:
Not exactly (or maybe not even remotely) what you meant, but it is possible to re-install/re-link Acrobat 4.05/dpsnx and have something better than the meager versions of ghostscript (gsview and xpdf) that SGI inserted in place of the original Display Postscript system
That's pretty much what i did, also. And if you use PhotoShop, there were a couple of tricks to get it running again. (the Human Nekochan Search Engine can find that in .003 seconds, I am sure
)
Howerver, i wish that I had not gone ahead and blindly 'upgraded'. If I knew then what I know now, I'da graduated from sixth gra ... no, I mean I'd have kept the original system rather than trying to back-install them.
None of these problems are psychopathic killers, for people who just mess about with the ol' Octane once a month for ten minutes, they don't matter. But if you do printing, then you want things to match. After the Great Software Upheaval, they don't.
We won't even discuss CUPS again. The cupboard is bare of Tagamet.
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For reference (and to absolve 6.5.22 from blame), the original DPS went missing at IRIX 6.5.23:
Oh cool ! That's good news. How about Impressario and ShowPS, etc ? If so, 6.5.22 would be ideal for a while. Can run nekoware ... eventually he will want to update most of the systems but if 6.5.22 is basically good, that's excellent.
TechPubs wrote:
Several of the fonts were
updated
for the IRIX 6.5.23 release
Updated my ass. They replaced the real Adobe Type1 fonts with el-cheapo copy fonts. Then they aliassed all the fonts over to the replacement crap. So when you think you are using Helvetica, you are really seeing Heavenetica. You just have all these real fonts in that directory that aren't getting used, except you
think
that's what you are seeing displayed.
Then when you go to print on your PostScript printer using the real Adobe fonts, sooprize sooprize ! Are my eyes going bad ? What's the deal with this PostScript shit, it's nowhere near as good as they say !
Yeah, well it might be if you were really using the fonts you thought you were using.
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The tools acroread (Adobe Acrobat® Reader), xpsview, and showps have been replaced with the more recent open source tools gsview and xpdf,
I do prefer xpdf but it should be a
choice
, not something rammed down our throats. Or worse, snuck in under the banner of 'modern replacements.'
As SAQ mentioned, the fees were already paid. Why cheat existing users ? Doesn't make any sense.
Anyway, my point was just that since Classy is at 6.5.20, don't rush in to get 6.5.30. Yes, 30 is mostly better, but there's a lot of stuff a serious user will want to keep from 6.5.20. So run it at 20 for a little while.
Really good to know the good stuff was still there at 6.5.22, too. That overlay is still available. Might be okay to go there directly, I haven't looked into it very deeply. When did CUPS ruin the property values ?
I can try jp's suggestion and report back.
