[WinMac] Corel files [WAS: Re: Macs and Pcs]

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:24:06 -0500

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At 11:04 PM 1/11/99 -0500, Alex replied to my post:
>> 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;
>
>Sorry, but this is not true. Talk to anyone who has had production
>experiemce with both platforms. And witness NT's ALARMINGLY recent
>acquisition (by way of Adobe writing it) of a postscript level 2 driver
>where there was none before.

True: That is because of NT's "protection..." Sort of like using a tin can
for a condom! :)
>
>Some cross-platform pre-press bureaus will refuse to accept Corel PC
>files. Not because they don't know Corel but because of all the problems
>outputting postscript from it (in all fairness, a lot fo these problems
>have been fixed in the latest version).

This is a CorelDraw problem, and not an NT issue: Again, the root of the
problem is CorelDraw's allowing of over 999 Bezier Control Points (BCP's)
on a single path, choking the RIP.

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