Ghostscript is the well-known PostScript interpreter which is available for
all common and most esoteric platforms and supports many different printers
and some displays.
This is distributed with the GNU General Public License, which allows
free use, and free copying and redistribution under certain conditions
(including, in some cases, commercial distribution).
This port includes add-on packages (not part of the official gs release)
o HP8XX driver for HP DeskJet 880C/882C/895C
- http://www.gelhaus.net/hp880c/
o PCL3 driver for HP DeskJet series
- http://home.vrweb.de/martin.lottermoser/pcl3.html
o DJ970 driver for HP DeskJet 970CXi
- http://www.harsch.net/Ghostscript/ghostscript.html
o Special drivers for verious printer models
- Alps, Canon, Epson, NEC, Lexmark, Ricoh,...
o Additional contributed uniprint driver profiles for
- Epson Stylus Color 740 and Epson LQ-1170
xcwcp: a CW tutor program for X Window environment. It offers the
same random and keyboard sending as comms/cwcp, and in addition can
read CW that sent to it using the keyboard or mouse as a keyer,
making it useful for sending as well as receiving practice.
XmAddressbook is a X11/Motif based address book program.
It allows the user to enter addressbook type information.
It saves its data in a text file. It can output the
addressbook in Postscript. It also has a Curses interface
for searching and viewing the address book.
asedit is an easy to use text editor for X Window System
built around Motif Text widget. Version 1.3, international
free Release, includes the following language versions:
English, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Portuguese and
Swedish. All commands and messages are localized for each
language. The on-line help is available only in English.
This port requires Motif to build.
xmille - X window mille bourne game
Xmille brings up a window for a mille bourne game. When selecting one
of your cards, the left button plays the card, the right button
discards the card and the middle button chooses whichever is appropriate,
first trying to play the card, and then discarding it
Xmountains is a X11 based fractal landscape generator. It generates
random fractal surfaces and displays them in a window. While the
program is running the fractal is continuously extended on the right
and the image is scrolled from right to left to expose the newly
generated area.
Xdvik is a program for displaying DVI files (generated e.g. by Troff or TeX)
on the X window system. It is based on the regular (non-k) xdvi of the same
version number.
This package includes pTeX support. A fontmap file for xdvi is installed as
TEXMFDIST/fonts/map/xdvi/xdvi-ptex.map.
xvkbd is a virtual (graphical) keyboard program for X Window System
which provides facility to enter characters onto other clients
(softwares) by clicking on a keyboard displayed on the screen. This may
be used for systems without a hardware keyboard such as kiosk terminals
or handheld devices. This program also has facility to send characters
specified as the command line option to another client.
This is abacus for X Window System. Essentially, this is a proof
by induction that a computer is more powerful than an abacus, since
a computer program can contain an abacus. (But then again, you can
simulate a computer within a computer, so what does that show).
Actually, with a real abacus, one can move more than one row at a
time with 10 fingers. But on the other hand, a real abacus does
not have the current sum displayed as an integer.
PCB is an interactive printed circuit board editor for the X11 window
system. PCB includes a rats nest feature, design rule checking, and
can provide industry standard RS-274-X (Gerber), NC drill, and
centroid data (X-Y data) output for use in the board fabrication and
assembly process. PCB offers high end features such as an autorouter
and trace optimizer which can tremendously reduce layout time.