Trying to install Metacard 2.4 on Linux

[Richmond]

On 07/09/2012 06:19 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Richmond wrote:
>> Metacard (lest you forget) has an option to import EPS files.
>
> Like anything else in a LiveCode stack, the MC IDE's scripts can only 
> do what the engine provides, so there's nothing in MC that can't be 
> done in LiveCode.
>
> From the Dictionary entry for the "EPS" token:
>
>     This object type is supported only on Unix systems with
>     Display PostScript installed.
>
> I don't believe I've seen such a system in many years.
>

The funny thing is that I have just run Metacard 2.4 for Windows with 
WINE 1.5.8
and it did import (admittedly very, very badly indeed) an EPS document 
as an image.

Mind you, that is rather like walking backwards for Christmas.