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From: laukee@canon.co.uk (David Lau-Kee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Why No Adobe Host-Base Interpreters?
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.081207.19577@canon.co.uk>
Date: 23 Oct 90 08:12:07 GMT
References: <34733@cup.portal.com> <1990Oct11.173733.14781@zoo.toronto.edu> <14508@vdsvax.crd.ge.com>
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barnett@vdsvax.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>I don't *quite* buy this argument. Adobe sells software anyway. (e.g.
>ATM. Illustrator.) 
>Let me ask a related question. 
>Illustrator can render a PostScript illustration to the screen. I
>don't know if it could render ANY postscript file currently, but it
>could if Adobe wanted it to.
>Why can't Illustrator be used to print a PostScript file on a
>non-PostScript device? (It doesn't).

Think about it. $(s/w+ps)+$(hw) < $(s/w+ps)+$(h/w+ps)

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