From: Mark Berryman [mark@theberrymans.com] Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 2:47 PM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: ANN: some new freeware and freeware updates for VMS The following packages have recently been placed on my server. You can find them at: http://mvb.saic.com/freeware/submissions/ or ftp://mvb.saic.com/submissions/ (so named because that is where I told the Freeware Coordinator that is where he could find them). Ghostscript V8.11 packaged as a PCSI install kit with a few fixes so that it will build correctly on either a VAX or an Alpha. I also added supporting code so that you can use the new -dAlignToPixels=0 setting on versions of DECWindows earlier than V1.3 (which makes for some really nice-looking font rendering). This version will also detect whether or not you are running a version of DECWindows that still has Display Postscript support and build the ghostscript fontmap accordingly. Mozplugger V1.3.0 This is a port of a program, written for Linux, that allows standalone programs to be used as a plugin for Mozilla. For example, the default config uses XPDF to display PDF files. Mozplugger will activate XPDF and then place it in the browser window. MPG123 and Timidity also provide great support for viewing those web pages with sound on them. MPG123 v0.59s-mh4 I fetched a copy of MPG123 from the author's web site (which, apparently, has not been touched since Oct 2000) and fixed the code that allows one to specify a URL as the MP3 filename so that it works on VMS. I also rewrote the sound support code for VMS since the original code was constantly allocating and deallocating buffers and eventually ran into memory allocation errors if you played a long enough playlist. With the addition of URL support, MPG123 can now be used to support streaming MP3 files with Mozplugger. XPDF v2.02pl1 The fixes here were mainly in the build procedure (there is a configure.com that performs the VMS equivalent of GNU configure that needed several updates) as well as some fixes to T1lib so that it correctly finds all of the font files XPDF tries to pass to it. If you have ghostscript, edit the XPDFRC file to use the font files that come with ghostscript and set the two variables t1libControl and freetypeControl to high (this is documented in the file). Doing so will cause XPDF to render anti-aliased fonts that look as nice as acrobat reader does on the PC. All of the packages build without error on any supported version of VMS. I do not have the resources to test on earlier versions. However, if you try to build them on earlier versions and they don't work, let me know what errors you get and I will try to fix them. Mark Berryman