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XY and Postscript timings



>From an earlier off-list conversation and testing of a
ancient legal text sample in Times Roman for Xywrite
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From: "Myron Gochnauer" 
To: Daniel Say 
Subject: Re: Goscript for Notabene, XyWrite
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42)

Daniel,
I'm not sure the attachment will come through, but if it does it is a
postscript file that I just tried on my system using Ghostscript.

The attachment is for a LaserJet IIP (or generic HP Laserjet, I think)
The typesetting is done by LaTeX and then converted to PostScript.

Here are the results I got with Ghostscript:
 From issuing the command to print until ---
   the printer actually begins printing page 1: 44 seconds
   the second page finishes:          2:22.

When I used DVIWIN, a non-postscript windows printing program used
with LaTeX, the times were :   first page    25 seconds
              and second page   1:24.

When I used DVIHPLJ, a non-postscript DOS printing program for LaTeX,
the times were          first page     7 seconds
              and second page    50 seconds.
(Needless to say, I normally print with the DOS program!)

Myron

========================== Daniel Say replies ============

	Well I installed Ghostscript 5.03 (June 1997) for
	DOS and compared it with Goscript.

Your PS.PS text was printed in DOS (I normally do everything
under OS/2 and its DOS windows). And I booted in DOS to give
a common reference to this 386DX33.

	To an HP Deskjet 300
  Case 1     Case 2  Case 3   Case 4
Under XYwrite   Ghost  Goscript  Goscript
Stripped ASCII        (default  (default
text 			   300 dpi)  150 dpi)

First page
starts    0 sec 15 sec  16 sec   21 sec
ends    33 sec 38 sec  42 sec   44 sec
Second ends 77 sec 67 sec  73 sec   74 sec

---------------------------

    Command line used to run Ghostscript and
    Goschner's PS file
gs386 -sdevice=deskjet -dnopause -dbatch f:\xydoc\ps.ps

---------- timing with stopwatch, start when RETURN/ENTER hit ----

Starts printer 15 seconds
first page
 finished   38 seconds (38-15= 23)
second page 
 finished   67 seconds (67-38= 29)
.....................

        ---------- Goscript from LaserGo has, as installed ------------
 Directory of s:\goscript\*.*
   sorted by EXTensions
.         ..        gsviewer   14K  gsconfig.bak  4K
gsv.bat    1K  gsconfig.cfg  4K  wingsr01.dll  6K  gs32.exe   268K
gsconfig.exe 53K  gsmovl.exe  21K  gsview.exe  14K  install.exe  36K
lhexpand.exe 13K  wingsr.exe  16K  wingsr.hlp  12K  gs32.ico    1K
printer.inf  4K  install.ini  1K  wingsr.ini   1K  gs32.pif    1K
demo.ps    1K  demo1.ps    1K  demo2.ps    1K  demo3.ps    1K
demo4.ps    1K  fontdemo.ps  5K  gsflyer.ps   6K  gsinit.ps   8K
seashell.ps  2K  filelist.txt  4K  readme.txt  28K  35fonts.vm  946K
  1,492,968 bytes in 32 file(s)     1,523,712 bytes allocated

    Fonts are inside the 35FONTS.VM file

    The self-explain of what drivers and their
    abbreviations are supported in output.
    In Goscript you set up a GS32.CFG file with
    defaults. You could even create several and
    haul them in as needed.
x:\goscript>GS32 /P?
Printer Drivers:
LASERJET LJII   LJIIP   LJIII   LJ4
DESKJET  DJPLUS  DJ500   DJ520   DJ560C
DJ660C  DJ1200C  EPSONFX  PROPRINT EPSONLQ
EPSTYLUS EPSTYCOL EPSTYPRO CANONBJ  CANONLBP
IBM2380  IBM2390  IBM24P  NEC24   OKI320
OKI393  OKILASER TOSH24

Graphics and Fax Drivers:
BMP    BRTFAX  DCX    DCX1024  G3FAX
JTFAX   OAZFAX  PCX    GSVIEWER RLC
TIFF   TIFFG3  TIFFG3FAX TIFFG4  VIEW
WDPORT

Display Drivers:
SVGA   SVGA800  VGA
    The GSVIEWER above is output to a file
    for self-display without the end-user
    having a Postscript viewer.

............ GHOSTSCRIPT
 Directory of t:\gs5.03\*.*  [as installed from file  *.zip *.zip *.zip ]
        sorted by EXTensions
.         ..        FONTS       bdftops    1K
copying    1K  fontmap    14K  news     176K  pdf2ps     1K
public    12K  readme     8K  fontmap.atb  7K  fontmap.atm  6K
bdftops.bat  1K  gsbj.bat    1K  gsdj.bat    1K  gsdj500.bat  1K
gslj.bat    1K  gslp.bat    1K  gsnd.bat    1K  gsndt.bat   1K
gst.bat    1K  gstt.bat    1K  pdf2ps.bat   1K  pftogsf.bat  2K
ps2ascii.bat  1K  ps2epsi.bat  1K  ps2pdf.bat   2K  ridt91.eps   4K
dos4gw.exe  260K  gs386.exe   2M  gsgraph.ico  1K  gstext.ico   1K
fontmap.os2  8K  acctest.ps   5K  align.ps    3K  alphabet.ps  2K
bdftops.ps  24K  caption.ps   2K  cheq.ps    59K  chess.ps    3K
colorcir.ps  2K  decrypt.ps   1K  docie.ps    8K  escher.ps   11K
font2c.ps   21K  golfer.ps   27K  grayalph.ps  2K  gslp.ps    16K
gs_btokn.ps  10K  gs_ccfnt.ps  3K  gs_cff.ps   19K  gs_cidfn.ps  13K
gs_cmap.ps   8K  gs_cmdl.ps   6K  gs_dbt_e.ps  3K  gs_diskf.ps  8K
gs_dpnxt.ps  2K  gs_dps.ps   2K  gs_dps1.ps   5K  gs_dps2.ps   7K
gs_epsf.ps   3K  gs_fform.ps  4K  gs_fonts.ps  29K  gs_init.ps  47K
gs_iso_e.ps  3K  gs_kanji.ps  5K  gs_ksb_e.ps  4K  gs_l2img.ps  6K
gs_lev2.ps  15K  gs_mex_e.ps  5K  gs_mro_e.ps  3K  gs_pdf.ps   19K
gs_pdfwr.ps  12K  gs_pdf_e.ps  2K  gs_pfile.ps  5K  gs_res.ps   20K
gs_setpd.ps  22K  gs_statd.ps  11K  gs_std_e.ps  4K  gs_sym_e.ps  4K
gs_ttf.ps   15K  gs_typ42.ps  2K  gs_type1.ps  6K  gs_wan_e.ps  2K
gs_wl1_e.ps  3K  gs_wl2_e.ps  3K  gs_wl5_e.ps  3K  impath.ps   6K
landscap.ps  2K  level1.ps   1K  lines.ps    4K  markhint.ps  4K
markpath.ps  3K  packfile.ps  11K  pcharstr.ps  3K  pdf2dsc.ps   5K
pdf_2ps.ps   9K  pdf_base.ps  15K  pdf_draw.ps  11K  pdf_font.ps  14K
pdf_main.ps  15K  pdf_sec.ps   3K  pfbtogs.ps   4K  ppath.ps    3K
prfont.ps   5K  printafm.ps  4K  ps2ai.ps   23K  ps2ascii.ps  41K
ps2epsi.ps   8K  ps2image.ps  1K  quit.ps    1K  rollconv.ps  12K
showchar.ps  4K  showpage.ps  1K  snowflak.ps  3K  stcinfo.ps  27K
stcolor.ps   6K  t1tot2.ps   8K  test.ps    1K  tiger.ps   80K
traceimg.ps  2K  traceop.ps   3K  type1enc.ps  3K  type1ops.ps  8K
uninfo.ps   7K  unprot.ps   2K  viewcmyk.ps  3K  viewgif.ps   5K
viewjpeg.ps  5K  viewpbm.ps   5K  viewpcx.ps   5K  viewps2a.ps  2K
waterfal.ps  3K  wftopfa.ps  10K  winmaps.ps   4K  wrfont.ps   19K
writecff.ps  11K  zeroline.ps  3K  bug-form.txt  3K  c-style.txt  12K
commprod.txt 12K  current.txt  7K  devices.txt 106K  dll.txt    21K
drivers.txt  57K  fonts.txt   21K  helpers.txt  9K  hershey.txt  11K
history1.txt 13K  history2.txt 192K  history3.txt 305K  humor.txt   3K
inizip.txt   1K  install.txt  10K  language.txt 30K  lib.txt    14K
make.txt   62K  new-user.txt 25K  ps2epsi.txt  3K  ps2pdf.txt   5K
psfiles.txt  9K  public.txt   4K  unix-lpr.txt  7K  use.txt    48K
xfonts.txt   7K  zip.txt    1K  bjc610a0.upp  2K  bjc610a1.upp  2K
bjc610a2.upp  2K  bjc610a3.upp  2K  bjc610a4.upp  2K  bjc610a5.upp  2K
bjc610a6.upp  2K  bjc610a7.upp  2K  bjc610a8.upp  2K  bjc610b1.upp  2K
bjc610b2.upp  2K  bjc610b3.upp  2K  bjc610b4.upp  2K  bjc610b6.upp  2K
bjc610b7.upp  2K  bjc610b8.upp  2K  cdj550.upp   2K  necp2x.upp   2K
necp2x6.upp  2K  ras1.upp    1K  ras3.upp    1K  ras4.upp    1K
ras8m.upp   1K  ras24.upp   1K  ras32.upp   1K  stc.upp    2K
stc2.upp    2K  stc2s_h.upp  3K  stc2_h.upp   2K  stc500p.upp  2K
stc500ph.upp  2K  stc600ih.upp  3K  stc600p.upp  2K  stc600pl.upp  2K
stc800ih.upp  3K  stc800p.upp  2K  stc800pl.upp  2K  stc1520h.upp  3K
stcany.upp   1K  stc_h.upp   2K  stc_l.upp   1K 
  3,929,020 bytes in 207 file(s)    4,159,488 bytes allocated
AND A SUBDIRECTORY OF FONTS (They have names inside, but are named
    with numbers for Ghostscript
 Directory of t:\gs5.03\fonts\*.*
.         ..        a010013l.pfb 26K  a010015l.pfb 27K
a010033l.pfb 27K  a010035l.pfb 27K  b018012l.pfb 35K  b018015l.pfb 35K
b018032l.pfb 34K  b018035l.pfb 35K  c059013l.pfb 37K  c059016l.pfb 38K
c059033l.pfb 38K  c059036l.pfb 38K  d050000l.pfb 44K  n019003l.pfb 27K
n019004l.pfb 27K  n019023l.pfb 28K  n019024l.pfb 29K  n019043l.pfb 27K
n019044l.pfb 28K  n019063l.pfb 28K  n019064l.pfb 29K  n021003l.pfb 35K
n021004l.pfb 35K  n021023l.pfb 37K  n021024l.pfb 36K  n022003l.pfb 35K
n022004l.pfb 38K  n022023l.pfb 34K  n022024l.pfb 40K  p052003l.pfb 42K
p052004l.pfb 41K  p052023l.pfb 39K  p052024l.pfb 40K  s050000l.pfb 32K
z003034l.pfb 38K 
  1,198,740 bytes in 37 file(s)     1,232,896 bytes allocated

  Total for: t:\gs5.03\*.*
  5,127,760 bytes in 244 file(s)    5,392,384 bytes allocated

i		There are so many files in the Ghostscript/Gnuscript
	because there is no support, no manuals (other than these files)
	and no warranty. All questions are directed to a Usenet
	group which doesn't often answer.