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From: rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript in PostScript
Summary: kinda ok
Keywords: graphical newsgroup
Message-ID: <2109@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 23 Oct 89 17:47:42 GMT
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In article <7800@cg-atla.UUCP>, felleman@cg-atla.UUCP (John Felleman) writes:
> [about having messages posted as PS programs, which, even tho I am
>  not blessed with one, might not be a bad idea...but then says]
>                                            For example, vt100 users would
> need a filter which just extracted the strings from the 'show's and displayed
> them as text,

Not so fast, so-called Sakomoto. Corel Draw, for example, doesn't use
ANY "show"'s to display text, because it (almost) always uses its own
fonts. Thus, this is simplest approach isn't quite complete.

> Let's start a discussion about the feasibility and
> desirability of this concept.

Ok.

> John Felleman  (508)-658-5600 X7034
> AGFA Compugraphic	    ...!{ima,ulowell,ism780c}!cg-atla!felleman

rob