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From: barr@Apple.COM (Ron Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 7 Nov 90 02:06:42 GMT
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knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes:

>I wrote:  
>>>...it [the Personal LaserWriter NT] ain't a PostScript printer
>>>and you can't do with it what you could do with a NeXT/NeXT laser
>>>printer combo.

>kmc4@quads.uchicago.edu (keith matthew cardoza) replies:
>>You are absolutely, positively, unequivocably WRONG.

>Care to elaborate?  The last time I checked the NT used QuickDraw rather
>than PostScript as its imaging language.  This means you can't rotate or
>scale Adobe fonts without butchering them.  

Sorry, check again. The NT uses PostScript (and always has). The SC models
use QuickDraw to do their imaging.

In effect, you are absolutely, positively, unequivocably WRONG.

Ron