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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType?
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Date: 30 Aug 90 21:58:53 GMT
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In article <5079@infmx.UUCP> cortesi@infmx.UUCP (David Cortesi) writes:
> In article <9931@goofy.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:
> >In article <438@three.mv.com> cory@three.mv.com (Cory Kempf) writes:
> >> MACHINE CODE???? 
> >Geez, relax, will ya?  What this means is that different devices will 
> >probably require a different driver (gee, what a shock.  That already 
> >seems to be true).
> 
> Absolutely not true. We have printers from TI, Imagen, QMS, and 
Printware,
> and we drive them all from the identical UNIX spooling daemons.  These
> include Adobe-license RIPS of different change levels and at least one
> clone (Printware's PrintScript).  We shove at them the output of 
FrameMaker
> (on Sun and NeXT), Eroff, and Wingz (Sun and NeXT) and they print it all,
> plus EPS clip art from Adobe Illustrator on the Mac.

I believe that; I was referring to the Macintosh drivers.  PostScript 
definitely does its job of being independent well; it seems to be the 
QuickDraw to PostScript conversion that can be problematic.

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                                Paul Snively
                      Macintosh Developer Technical Support
                             Apple Computer, Inc.

chewy@apple.com

Just because I work for Apple Computer, Inc. doesn't mean that I believe 
what they believe, or vice-versa.
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