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Can be found here. It hasn't progressed much in the past 4 years but looks pretty cool. If only some generous developers would invest some time to make it into a usable project.

Alternatively, I have to wonder how much of the functionality of NeWS already exists in Ghostscript.

I'm not familiar with NeWS, but there was an effort to make Display Ghostscript. But it doesn't seem to have been touched in almost 4 years.

Yes and no.

The Gimp has had for some time (since version 1.2 IIRC) some support for vectorial drawing: you can define paths using bezier curves, which may be adjusted, saved and restored, and drawn on the current layer using the current brush. But drawing (and selecting the layer) must be done manually.

The next version of The Gimp adds the ability to save and restore paths as SVG paths (before, it used an ad-hoc simple textual format), and also the ability to import an SVG image by rendering it on a bitmap (like it did with PS images).

That's it: a useful thing to have, but it has little to do with vectorial drawing.

There was a GNU project (which apparently failed) that was trying to create a vector art authoring tool. I can't remember the name of it.

You are talking about GYVE: its developement has stopped in 2002.

OTOH, for Free vectorial drawing programs, check out sodipodi (and its IMHO nicer branch Inkscape) and the good ol' Sketch (now called Skencil).

I think he meant Display Ghostscript although it seems to have fallen out of favor of late.

There have been several attempts based on GhostScript to produce a real postscript API for X11.

Actually, Quartz is a "Display PDF" system, descended from the "Display Postscript" system that's been used on commercial Unix for years.

Of course "Display Ghostscript" is coming to a linux box near you too! gyve

Apart from all the gui's-suck comments, quartz (the technology itself) is a brilliant piece of work! A built-in 2d renderer with support for PDF with all that entails. Yes, Aqua is glitzy and flashy and probably not as intuitive as the old interface, but the technology underneath it is what calls my attention.

*That* I consider innovation. I wish we had more of that in Linux...

Innovation? They bought NeXT, and wrapped it in a pretty GUI with lots of colors. You call that innovation?

I suppose someone will now announce a Open-Source project to *copy* Quartz'z functions...

Do you mean something like DGS or X/DPS???

The "3rd generation" GUI's has been around for at least a decade...