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From: ben@val.uucp (Ben Thornton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: PostScript Versus ASCII
Message-ID: <1989Oct5.231404.17585@val.uucp>
Date: 5 Oct 89 23:14:04 GMT
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perry@Morgan.COM (Perry Metzger) writes:

>What about people who want to read their RFC's today? So far as I
>know, GhostScript has no outline fonts and doesn't drive any laser
>printers that I own. Besides, it is written in C. What happens to
>those people who are using machines other than Unix boxes? Since when
>did they become second class citizens? What happened to people without
>laser printers? Not everyone has them, you know.

Hear, hear.

Postscript is very inefficient about getting something onto paper in a
hurry, so far as text is concerned.  Where is excels is its ability to
execute algorithmic procedures for plotting mathematically-defined
entities (besides the cubic-splined fonts).  Unfortunately, not very
many applications support that aspect of the language.  Oh well.


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