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Hmmm... As I seem to remember, when you were still so young you were wetting
the bed...
As I seem to remember, from back in the pre-Mac days, PostScript was
originally a page description language that was used for imagesetters to
produce camera-ready galleys. The typesetter (operator) would actually manually
enter the commands at a DOS prompt.
Also, I *explicitely* stated "PostScript was designed from the start to be
platform independent almost 20 years ago" -- Doesn't that mean the same thing
as "Postscript wasn't written with OS's in mind?"
You should have joined us for a few beers before replying! :)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:leonardr@lazerware.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 7:37 PM
>Subject: 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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