[9615] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.4G: dxpsview
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Tue Jul 14 01:51:22 1992
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 01:51:14 EDT
From: Richard J. Barbalace <rjbarbal@Athena.MIT.EDU>
System name: w20-575-81
Type and version: KN02ba 7.4G
Display type: PMAGB-BA
What were you trying to do?
Use dxpsview on a Dec5000/133, again.
What's wrong:
dxpsview on a greyscale monitor can't display grey.
Yes, I'm serious. This is about the most braindead thing I've
ever seen.
A little more detail:
I had a ".5 setgray" in a part of my code; dxpsview didn't display
the filled regions I was trying to draw; it didn't even bother trying
to display them in all black or all white; it simply ignored them.
Ramifications:
I'm going to be using lpr as a previewer until these things get fixed.
Trees are going to die.
