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From: smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (J. Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript in PostScript
Keywords: graphical newsgroup
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Date: 25 Oct 89 02:27:37 GMT
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In article <7800@cg-atla.UUCP> felleman@cg-atla.UUCP (John Felleman) writes:
>
>Someone here at Agfa Compugraphic recently pointed out how regressive
>it was that our computerized discussions of PostScript were limited to
>[...]
>screens.  Access to the display filter would be similar to the way that
>'rn' displays rot13 articles.
>
>Let's start a discussion about the feasibility and
>desirability of this concept.
Sounds like a neat idea to me.  But a lot of poor souls must still
read news on a plain old terminal.  Most of them would loose all their
graphics.  Also, previews tend to be rather expensive in terms of a
Workstation, disk space, CPU time, etc.  Still, I think this is a neat
idea.

   Dan
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