[WinMac] Re: PostScript platform independent?

Milan Adamov(madamov[at]opennet.org)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:25:14 +0100

At 13:49 -0700 9/1/99, Bill Larson wrote:
>>>
>>>4) PostScript output from a Mac is generally much more reliable than PC's.
>>
>> False: PostScript is, and always has been since its inception in ~1982,
>>platform independent. Just download the latest PostScript drivers from:
>> <http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/pdrvmac.htm> or
>> <http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/pdrvwin.htm> for
>>Mac and NT, respectively;
>>
>
>I, for one, have several examples of trying to print an Illustrator
>file from a Windows machine that prints incorrectly and the same
>file prints correctly on a Mac. This in my eyes validates statement
>#4.
>
>Bill Larson
>billl@earthling.net

PostScript is platform independant. But we have an imagesetter in company
(the other department is prepress oriented), and from our experience,
PostScript files coming from Macs never had any problem, while those files
coming from PCs are like playing lottery, especially if they are
Corel-made, they look good distilled in PDF, but generates error in RIP.
Several times our operators wasn't able to do anything with the PS file and
clients went to competition and competition never could do anything with
files also. As I can here from our competition, they all have similar
problems.

Milan
Milan Adamov
Colorgrafx d.o.o., Netopia Inc., Farallon and ACI distributor
Misarska 5, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Tel/Fax. +381-11-323-2159 http://www.colorgrafx.co.yu/
E-mail 1: madamov@opennet.org E-mail 2: madamov@colorgrafx.co.yu

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