Re: [WinMac] Quark's PostScript [WAS: Mac printing to HP LaserJet via NT]
Danny Thomas(D.Thomas[at]vthrc.uq.edu.au)
Dan Schwartz <expresso@snip.net> opines >Now that Adobe owns PageMaker as well as PostScript, Adobe also tries to >provide whatever competitive advantage it can to its' own page layout app. > >This is quite similar to the "Browser Wars:" M$ IIS servers "break" >Netscape browsers (and vice versa!). please don't assume there's (always) a conspiracy. The real problem is the Mac's printing architecture is too old & rickety, eg we're still stuck with having all pages landscape or portrait. Programs that generate their own PostScript like QX or FreeHand or PageMaker *had* to bypass the documented interface to achieve some of their functionality. QuickDrawGX was the attempt to not only brings Apple imaging/printing model up to date, but take it into the future. For various reasons that never took off.
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