Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!toto.cis.ohio-state.edu!pollack From: pollack@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jordan B Pollack) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Using a postscript printer for previewing? Message-ID: Date: 5 Dec 89 17:09:03 GMT References: <17404@rpp386.cactus.org> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 13 In-reply-to: woody@rpp386.cactus.org's message of 5 Dec 89 13:54:10 GMT OK, I called Emerald City, and LASERTALK is NOT available for the PC, only the MAC. The technical representative thinks that a new header is placed on an EPSF file, and SHOWPAGE is replaced by an undocumented function whose access and description were purchased from Adobe. Unthinkingly, my proposal involved a trojan horse security gap, which Fort Adobe has already protected for. Imagine being able to get bitmaps for proprietary fonts back to the host! So I guess its probably impossible without a lot of money. But, if the feature is undocumented and inside all apple laserwriters from day 1, surely it can be used, given this knowledge, which could certainly be obtained by examining a file sent by lasertalk to a laserwriter, unless that is protected by law....