Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely
From: jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Postscript previewer under X
Message-ID: <JGREELY.90Oct8152645@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 8 Oct 90 19:26:45 GMT
References: <655046250@<chic> <22700017@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
	<106894@convex.convex.com>
Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Reply-To: J Greely <jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science
Lines: 12
In-reply-to: datri@convex.com's message of 5 Oct 90 17:18:59 GMT

In article <106894@convex.convex.com> datri@convex.com
 (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>Beware that PostScript devices define their own transfer functions,
>so without intimate knowledge of your specific printer, you can't
>always know exactly what dots will be plotted.

Adobe supplies PPD (PostScript Printer Description) files for most or
all real PostScript printers, available from the mail-server.  Among
other things, these contain the default halftone settings and transfer
function.  Damn handy.
--
J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)