This area contains the Ghostview material mentioned. Note the full
Gnu Ghostscript distribution is elsewhere on this tape.

Subject: ANNOUNCE: GhostView-VMS 2.3, Xmu, Xaw3d
Date: 8 Mar 1996 00:36:13 GMT
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany


Version 2.3 of GhostView-VMS is now available via anonymous
ftp from
   site: iphthf.physik.uni-mainz.de
   dir:  pub/vms
New versions of the Xmu/Xaw3d libraries, required to build this
application, are included.
The distribution is "source only" and it is incompatible with any
earlier version on the level of DCL procedures, makefiles, sources,
data files and binaries. You will therefore need to obtain all
zip-archives found in the above directory.
The sources for XFig included in earlier versions have been
removed from this package.
Before downloading the sources please consult the file
README.TXT.

Apart from bug fixes the most important changes in this version are:
   GhostView-VMS 2.3:
      - flexible zoom areas.
      - basic support for PDF files (with ghostscript 3.51 or higher).
      - antialias option.
      - new user interface.
      - linux support.
      - support for the production of a stand-alone executable (see
        the STATIC option in the installation docs).
   Xmu/Xaw3d: 
      - better method to build these libraries, making it easier
        to use them with other clients.
      - allow to create object rather than shared libraries (see the
        STATIC option in the installation docs).
 
Up to now the sources have been compiled on

   Operating System	  X Windows	  Compiler
   -----------------------------------------------------
   OpenVMS AXP V6.2	  X11 Release 5   DEC C V5.0-003
   OpenVMS VAX V6.1	  X11 Release 5   DEC C V5.0-003

Whether the sources compile correctly on X11R4 and/or
when using VAX C is unknown.

Oh, before anyone is going to ask why there are no scrollbars
anymore in the main window of gv-vms: scrolling is done by moving
the mouse in the main window while keeping mouse button 1 pressed.

I'd like to thank Richard Levitte (levitte@e.kth.se) for his
ideas, e-mail discussions and patches related to the
modifaction(s) of the Xmu/Xaw3d libraries.
Tim Adye (dye@v2.rl.ac.uk) had the great idea to provide the
STATIC option for those who prefer stand-alone executables.
Even better; he had all necessary patches handy within minutes.

In the hope that all this is somewhat useful for you,

   Johannes Plass, (plass@dipmza.physik.uni-mainz.de)