Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ncar!bierstadt!hpoppe
From: hpoppe@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacTech Poetry
Keywords: EPSF PicComments embedded PostScript QuickDraw
Message-ID: <5545@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 89 22:26:15 GMT
References: <2469@draken.nada.kth.se>
Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu
Reply-To: hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
Lines: 35

In article <2469@draken.nada.kth.se> ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes:
%
%  Called in sick today, couldn't tear myself off the Winter 1990 (!)
%  MachTech Quarterly... lotsa good stuff, as usual, also a treat
%  for the eye.  A lengthy `Page & Picture' column on PostScript
%  brings forth information of a proposed new graphic file/ print
%  format, called `Hybrid PICT', that's already in use by packages
%  from Adobe Systems, Aldus, Cricket Software and Emerald City
%  Software (Illustrator, FreeHand, Cricket Draw and Smart Art
%  respectively).  Other programs are capable of reading/ displaying
%  and properly printing from files of this type.
%
%  Unlike the EPSF format that, in its Macintosh' incarnation, consists
%  of 2 separate files (the data fork holding the PostScript code while
%  the resource fork holds either a PICT or a bitmap-wrapped-in-a-
%  PICT) thereby making it difficult for other programs to know which
%  part to decode and/ or print, the proposed new format makes use
%  of PicComments-embedded "crunched" PostScript code that provides
%  for mutually exclusive printing capability;  no need to go into
%  that deeper than that here and now.
%
%  Needless to say, the format is _NOT_ actively supported by Apple,
%  which is a pity, considering the stand-alone-like features of
%  the proposed method.  Apple, please, take note and act before it
%  is too late!.

Well, well, well: it looks like Aldus and company finally read Apple's
TechNotes.

TN  91 [Nov. 86] "Optimizing for the LaserWriter - Picture Comments"
TN 183 [Nov. 87] "Position-Independent PostScript"

Herb Poppe      NCAR                         INTERNET: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu
(303) 497-1296  P.O. Box 3000                   CSNET: hpoppe@ncar.CSNET
		Boulder, CO  80307               UUCP: hpoppe@ncar.UUCP