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From: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Woody vs. PostScript again (was: Re: How to super-impose images ?)
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Date: 25 Jul 90 18:57:37 GMT
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DISCLAIMER: I don't know woody except as a poster to this group ...


In article <9407@goofy.Apple.COM> kevina@apple.com (This space for rent) writes:
>Wood-man--
>Other net-types have tired of flaming your flames against PostScript, but 

What about all this woody-bashing? ... time to stop that as well ... IMHO

I am a Postscript less_than_novice ... and have received HELPFUL replies here 
from woody to ALL my questions (others answered some as well).

>Enough talk... we want action!
>In the long (but hopefully not too long) term, I eagerly await a full, 
>portable, implementation of WoodyScript running on a variety of imaging 
>engines.  I expect that it will feature:
>    -  <a few nifty sounding features>
>as well as an open specification of its patching operator (woodyexec).  
>Until then, although far be it from me to be an apologist for Adobe, I'll 
>stick with PostScript and compatibles. 

Standards try and cover as many bases as possible, but one can never please 
everybody ... besides, as far as I know, there is only one woody vs ?? people 
@ Adobe.

... surely that would give woody 10+ years to come up with WoodyScript ...



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