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From: orthlieb@adobe.COM (Carl Orthlieb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: AppleDict
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Date: 16 Aug 90 18:21:24 GMT
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Reply-To: orthlieb@adobe.UUCP (Carl Orthlieb)
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In article <36054@ut-emx.UUCP> jonabbey@walt.cc.utexas.edu 
	(Jonathan Abbey) writes:
>As I got useful results from my last question, I thought I'd repeat my
>perfidy and ask if there might be an annotation available for Apple's 
>AppleDict PostScript dictionary?
>
>Or is this one of the trials that all LaserWriter programmers must endure
>on their own? 8-)
>

I'm just curious why you are trying to unravel the LaserPrep file.

The reason I mention this is that at Adobe we are writing a new PostScript
printer driver for the Macintosh. If you are planning on figuring out how
LaserPrep does certain things so you can leverage off of them or 'fix'
them, be aware that our driver will NOT have anything much like the structure
of Apple's driver (from the PostScript point of view) - that's the good
news. The bad news is that if you rely on quirks in LaserPrep you make our
job MUCH more difficult. Just thought I'd mention it... 

Thanks, Carl 8-)