Re: [WinMac] Re: Quark's PostScript [WAS: Mac printing to HP LaserJet]

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:25:24 -0500

At 9:05 AM -0500 11/4/98, Gabriel Lawrence wrote:
>>Gee, if I were Adobe, would I provide info to someone producing a
>>competing product to my own PageMaker?!
>
>Only if I didnt want the Justice Department to come knocking at my door
>someday...
>
        Adobe does NOT do ANYTHING proprietary in PageMaker (or our other
applications) - we simply generate better Postscript than Quark does
(hmm...I wonder why ;).

        AFAIK, the only thing that we've ever done that was even vaguely in
this category was that since we had our own printer driver (PSPrinter), we
took advantage of it. However, there is nothing wrong with doing that -
it's our driver, we wrote it and it's there SO that our products can have
extra features. If Quark wanted the same thing - they could also write
their own printer driver.

Leonard
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