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1    Introduction to the Display PostScript System
1.1    Overview of the Display PostScript System
1.2    PostScript Language Imaging Capabilities
1.3    Display PostScript System in WS

2    Components and Concepts
2.1    Components
2.1.1    PostScript Interpreter
2.1.2    Client Library
2.1.3    The Translation Program: pswrap
2.2    Concepts
2.2.1    Contexts
2.2.1.1    Execution Context
2.2.1.2    Text Context
2.2.2    Context Record and DPSContext Handle
2.2.3    Context Status
2.2.4    Current Context
2.2.5    Space
2.2.6    Identifiers
2.2.7    Coordinate Systems

3    Getting Started
3.1    Developing a Typical Application
3.2    Basic Application Requirements
3.3    Sample Application: examplemain
3.3.1    What the Sample Application Does
3.3.2    The Main Code
3.3.3    Source File for Wrap
3.3.4    Running examplemain
3.4    Building XDPS Applications
3.4.1    Including Header Files
3.4.2    Compiling
3.4.3    Linking
3.4.4    Invoking pswrap from a Makefile
3.4.5    Sample Makefile
3.5    More Sample Applications
3.5.1    Examples Contrasting Design Approaches
3.5.2    Running the Sample Applications
3.6    Summary of Basic Tasks

4    Advanced Concepts and Tasks
4.1    PostScript Language Encoding
4.2    Buffering and the Client Library
4.3    Accessing Files on the Server
4.4    Converting Coordinates
4.4.1    Preparing to Convert Coordinates
4.4.2    X Coordinates to User Space Coordinates
4.4.3    User Space Coordinates to X Coordinates
4.5    Resizing Windows
4.5.1    Window Resizing and the Clipping Path
4.5.2    Window Resizing and the User Space Origin
4.6    Synchronizing the Display PostScript System and X
4.7    Synchronizing Client and Context
4.8    Sharing Contexts and Spaces
4.9    Using Color
4.9.1    Converting Colors and Shades into Pixel Values
4.9.2    Defining a Color Cube and Gray Ramp
4.9.2.1    Using the Color Cube
4.9.2.2    Using the Gray Ramp
4.9.3    Rendering Colors Not in the Color Cube
4.9.4    The colorinfo Array and XStandardColormaps

5    Client Library Routines for WS
5.1    System-Specific Header File
5.2    X-Specific Singleops
5.3    Naming Conventions
5.4    Client Library Routine Descriptions

6    X-Specific Operators for WS
6.1    About the Operators
6.2    Operator Errors
6.3    Operator Descriptions

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