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From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacRip: Postscript-->Quickdraw
Message-ID: <1990Jan25.024439.18318@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 90 02:44:39 GMT
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Reply-To: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
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I'm presently coding up a Postscript interpreter for my own use, also as
a hacking exercize (I do computational learning theory all day, and a bit
of programming gives my neurons a chance to stretch).  It will do anti-aliasing
on a grey-scale screen, so it should provide a nice looking previewer,
as well as a way to (perhaps slowly) print Postscript files on non-Postscript
printers.

My question is: How many people out there would pay a $20 shareware fee for
this product?  Furthermore, how many of you would like to provide printer
interfaces for it?  We could make fee-sharing arrangements; alternatively,
the drivers could be posted separately as code resources for editing into
the RIP.

Postscript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Inc.  Since the Adobe fonts
are copyrighted by Adobe, they of course cannot be included with the
program and must be obtained from licensed sources.

Mark Fulk
fulk@cs.rochester.edu