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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: PostScript/TrueType Question
Message-ID: <70500081@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 90 01:49:00 GMT
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> 	Tim is correct, I am bored of Mr. Gillies perpetual flaming
> 	of the Mac. If he dislikes it so much, why does he not move
> 	to some other platform that better suits his needs. Though it
> 	could perhaps be debated whether such a platform exists...
> Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
> 3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
> Enterprise Systems Division             (I disclaim anything and everything)
> UUCP: {3comvax,auspex,sun}!bridge2!ngg  Internet: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM

Christ, people can't take a little sarcasm about selling my Mac II and
buying a NeXT.  I realize that all macintosh purchasers have invested
lots of money (a whole hell of a lot, actually) in their macintoshes
(I myself dropped 5200), and that they are very proud of their machine
and buying decision.

After spending all my money on the macintosh, I've made myself a poor
college student -- I'm basically stuck with whatever I have.  One of
the "features" of a macintosh is that, once you've bought it, you
can't afford another computer for several years.

I find that the macintosh does not work well for technical
documentation.  No draw program (that I know of) supports subscripts
in figure labels; the basic picture architecture could do a better job
supporting rotation, and I spend 90% of my bug-fixing time getting our
non-laserwriters to print the postscript files it generates.  Complex
Canvas pictures crash our printer, and the boxes of MacDraw II
pictures often print misaligned when they are pasted into MS-Word.
I've been forced to re-draw my conference paper pictures AT LEAST
TWICE, sometimes as much as 4 times, to get a good result.  Scaling a
picture almost never works (because of the lack of support for
subscripts).

Mr Goodger, I "give something back", e.g. provide the net with
information on how to interface the mac to non-apple laserprinters,
and how to patch the "Laserwriter" Icon to do unusual things.  Do you
"give something back", mr. Goodger?  I didn't think so.

If you want to criticize my pleas for improvement in the architecture,
be my guest.  I'll just add your name to my kill file.

Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu   UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies