New Features

The following features are included in recent Atari ports of GS.

If you have suggestions, preferences, or would like to add something to the wish list, please send me email. Help adding new features to GS is always welcome. Is anyone interested in adding clipboard support, drag and drop support, Speedo font support, or support for 3D objects?

Included in GS 3.53

• A highly recommended upgrade from 3.33, which had a couple of annoying bugs. Unfortunately, the documentation was missing from the original GS 3.53 archive, but this has been remedied.
• Color modes work once again.
• Environment variables can now be set from the startup file. This eliminates the necessity of having external programs to set environment variables. It also makes it possible to write a setup program that installs and configures GS automatically. No such setup program exists yet.
• Adobe's Portable Document Format (pdf) support is much more stable.

Included in GS 3.33

• Few new Atari-Specific features. Color capabilities were accidentally broken in an attempt to turn the 2-bit color mode into a greyscale device.
• Support for Adobe's Portable Document Format (pdf) -- buggy.

Included in GS 3.12

• Added an icon manager and cleaned up icon handling a bit. I decided that standard GEM icon support for later TOS versions was not worth the effort. All TOS versions can use my home-grown icon manager.
• Document names are now shown in the window title bar. These same names appear in the icon manager.

Included in GS 3.01

• I/O speed to the console (text) window has been improved.
• Limited capability for viewing individual pages from a larger document has been added. This capability requires that PS documents be properly structured, and I honestly don't know how many really are. This feature was developed and tested with the output of dvips, so it should at least work with dvips' output.
• Several PostScript images may now be displayed on the screen simultaneously.
• Menu selections have been added for selecting the output device, the output file, the image resolution, and the page size.
• Online help windows have been added. Help files can be displayed in either ASCII or PostScript.
• A startup file can be used to control initial window size and placement.
• The menu hot keys are more standard (as if there is a standard).
• Fixes to 16-bit color. It should now be completely hardware- independent.
• The color palette is now set from the end to minimize changes in window gadget and background colors.
• 24-bit color support.

Wish List (may never see the light of day).

• Add more command-line editing to the interpreter. Dream, dream, dream ....
• Some type of installation program or script would be nice. Now that environment variables can be set from the startup script, this is a little closer to reality.