RE: [WinMac] Re: To convert Mac->Windows, should I bother?

From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 16:37:13 PST

  • Next message: Dan Schwartz: "RE: [WinMac] Re: To convert Mac->Windows, should I bother?"

    At 4:21 PM -0500 1/3/01, Dan Schwartz wrote:
    >Keep in mind that an Acrobat PDF document is really a special form of a
    >PostScript .PS file; and PostScript was designed from the start to be platform
    >independent almost 20 years ago - Even *before* there was a Mac!

            Here goes Dan spouting off with misinformation again...

            First, the ONLY thing that PDF and Postscript have in common
    is the "imaging model" (ie. cubic beziers, smooth shading models,
    etc.). EVERYTHING ELSE (file format, instruction set, etc.) is
    COMPLETELY different!

            Second, Postscript wasn't written with OS's in mind - it was
    written (and is to this day) a page description language for
    PRINTERS. And the first mass market device that PS was delivered
    for was...The Apple Laserwriter!

    Leonard 

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