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From: mouse@SHAMASH.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse)
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Subject: Re: what's most important to you for R5?
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Date: 30 Jun 90 05:48:24 GMT
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>>> I'd love to see somebody contribute a Display PostScript extension
>>> (perhaps DEC or Adobe would be so kind).

>> The usefulness of a real PostScript Interpreter cannot be
>> overstated.  I would rank this as one of the most important possible
>> features for X11R5.

Please, Consortium...if you do decide to include this, make it
configurable out.  I have no use for such a thing and have much better
uses for the memory it would eat up.  (Making it an extension, like the
SHAPE extension in R4, would be a very sane way to go.)

> The reason for incorporating something like Display PostScript into X
> is to remove any dependence on the display resolution.

And it would do that tolerably well.  But I argue that this is not
something you want to do.  Not until we have displays whose pixels are
too small to see.  (Current displays don't begin to approach this; even
laser printers aren't that good yet.)

					der Mouse

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