Display Postscript + Framemaker + Redhat + Gnustep ?

[bob flynn]

All,

This is a fishing email, so please excuse the ambiguity !!

I am looking to do the following.

I currently have alot of Sun workstations, running Framemaker. Documents 
are created with EPS graphics. These display
fine on Sun machines, without having to include a preview image of the 
graphic, because the Sun X server has a Display
Postscript extension ( NeWs ), which allows the EPS image to be rendered 
on the fly.

Now the problem.

I would like to introduce Linux to this environment. There is only one 
showstopper to this. There is a large body of
framemaker documents with EPS graphics without preview images. Running 
Redhat enterprise, the X sever does
not have a Display Postscript extension ( its not alone, HP-UX and 
programs like exceed do not have the extension also ), hence creating a 
problem.

When viewing a document on screen, you simply see a hatched box where an 
image should be displayed, as there is no preview image available, and 
the X server
cannot interpet the EPS to render the image.

So why am I writing to this list ?

Well from I have read, gnustep does have a Display Postscript extension 
built into it

http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/User/GNUstep/faq_1.html#SEC39

so, I am trying to figure out can I achive the following;

1. Run Red Hat linux
2. With Gnome as the default Windows manager
3. With gnustep installed to render the display postscript as provided 
by the framemaker documents.

I am unsure of the relationship between gnustep and Gnome, but 
understand that gnustep is not simply a windows manager.

If someone could clarify the above, and provide pointers to 
implemenetation I would appreciate it.

Finally, if anyone has experience of this, or how practical, ie how 
mature the Display Postscript Server is I would appreciate any feedback.

-Bob Flynn

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