[WinMac] Re: Quark's PostScript [WAS: Mac printing to HP LaserJet]
Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 04 Nov 1998 11:36:21 -0500
Ahhh, Leonard, I *knew* this would get a rise out of you! :)
Actually, I try to use this bundling argument to get my customers to
switch from Quark XPress to PageMaker.
One MAJOR problem: Where is the full port for Windows NT? Why are there
are NO full NT ports of ANY of Adobe's products?
[When I say a "full port for Windows NT," I'm including binaries for both
the x86 and Alpha versions... Just like on the NT4 CD; and just like many
of the major apps and utilities. There are native NT/Alpha ports for
QuarkXPress, Corel Draw 8, Corel PhotoPaint,...]
Yours truly,
Daniel L. Schwartz
At 10:25 AM 11/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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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