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From: philip@.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Adobe license changes.
Keywords: I *HOPE* this is fixed.
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.212409.26750@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Oct 90 21:24:09 GMT
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In article <13363@cs.utexas.edu>, osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) writes:
|> In NeXTOS 1.0 (Just what DO you call the OS a NeXT runs?) Adobe licensing
|> restrictions forbade using the display postscript mechanism to generate
|> a bitmap for any output device (save the NeXT printer & screen) at
|> resolutions higher than 100dpi, if I remember the numbers correctly.
|> Clearly, this is an astonishingly stupid thing to do, as it makes it
|> illegal to effectively use printers like the HP-DeskJet.
|> (I think the ImageWriter is 72dpi, allowing the use of programs like
|>  iwscript.)
|> 
|> So, my question is:  Has this changed under 2.0?  I *really* like the idea
|> of having to spend $500 for a DeskJet rather than $1500 for a NeXT printer.
Correction: the Apple ImageWriter is 144dpi.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu