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On 05 Sep 96 Alan Cooper wrote: >GS is big and slow even on my 8MB 75Hz Pentium - an expert told me it was >because postscript is a full functional document language - you only have to >look at the size of .ps files to see that. > >I find that it thrashes the hard disk (probably the windows swap file) and has >periods of quiet processing. Clicking with the mouse will usually mean even >longer waits when GS eventually gets round to processing these extra mouse >clips. GSview/Postscript are quite demanding, but I suspect the problem you have is hardware limited - any graphically-based system will have a few problem in 8MB, even under Win3.1 (and as Postscript is a page-description language, it has to be considered as a graphics programme). It is not that it is interpreted. My experience with a later version (4.01) under OS/2 (this does help) on a 75MHz/ 32MB machine (I bit the bullet, and it was well worth it!) is that it flies: a document comes up in about 5-6 seconds, and paging/resizing takes a second or less. So don't be put off too much. >>>>>>>>>>>>> Andrzej Glowinski [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%