[WinMac] Re: Quark's PostScript [WAS: Mac printing to HP LaserJet via NT]
Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 03 Nov 1998 18:04:29 -0500
No, it's not a "conspiracy" per se... When Aldus published PageMaker, both
Quark and Aldus tried to curry favor with Adobe. But about 3 years ago,
when Adobe swallowed up Aldus, the rules changed... And Quark was left on
the outside looking in.
Gee, if I were Adobe, would I provide info to someone producing a
competing product to my own PageMaker?!
At 07:12 AM 11/4/98 +1000, Danny Thomas wrote:
>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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