Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!shelby!neon!lucid.com!jwz From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Why No Adobe Host-Basec Interpreters? Message-ID: Date: 11 Oct 90 04:56:05 GMT References: <34733@cup.portal.com> Sender: jwz@lucid.com Organization: Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA Lines: 20 In-reply-to: schuster@cup.portal.com's message of 10 Oct 90 22:55:05 GMT In article <34733@cup.portal.com> schuster@cup.portal.com (Michael Alan Schuster) writes: > > With Adobe finally licensing (and producing) direct-market interpreters > for the HP printers, why don;t they do in the host-based clones (like > Freedom of Press, UltraScript, Goscript, etc. etc) by producing one of > their own. Apparently they do; the PS previewer that comes with DecStation 3100s (dxpsview) contains an Adobe-licensed PS interpreter. Actually that's not true, it's the DecStation's X server which has Adobe PS built in, but dxpsview's startup banner says it's Adobe licensed. It's very fast, too. One annoying (though probably intentional) thing abount this arrangement is that I can't rlogin to one of our decstations and run dxpsview with the display happening on the Sun on my desk, because the PS is built in to the X server, I have to actually go and sit in front of the thing. Bummer. -- Jamie