Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!xylogics!merk!millipore!blu
From: blu@millipore.com (Brian Utterback)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Postscript upgrades and revisions.
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.193128.7428@millipore.com>
Date: 15 Nov 90 19:31:28 GMT
Organization: Millipore Corporation
Lines: 33

I have several questions which I hope someone can answer.  I have an 
AST/TurboLaser PS+3.  It has Postscript level 47.0 installed.  AST is no longer
selling this product and will not be issuing any upgrades.

What I want to know is what are the ramifications of having this level of
Postscript?  What is the current level of Postscript?  Is there a list of the
changes at each revision and where can I get it? What happens as time goes on
and I get further behind?  Is there any way that I can upgrade the ROM without
AST myself?

On a related note, does the second edition of the Red book cover Postscript
Level two?

And on an unreleated note, Does anyone have a file that can list and/or print
samples of ALL the fonts resident in ALL the dictionaries?  I have a program
that will print samples of the resident fonts and one that will print a list
of the resident fonts, but I would like to print samples of fonts that have 
been downloaded by other programs.  For instance, the Seattle font is downloaded
by the Macintosh LaserWriter driver and I would like to print a sample of it.
The same goes for the fonts downloaded by my DVI2PS driver.  Both of these
create their own dictionaries.

And on an semi-related note, does anyone know why the Mac driver downloads 
the Seattle font.  I have never seen it used and it just takes up memory. 
What would happen if I removed it?



-- 
Brian Utterback, Millipore Corporation, 75G Wiggins Ave., Bedford Ma. 01730
Work:617-275-9200x8245, Home:603-891-2536
INTERNET:: blu@millipore.millipore.com
UUCP:: {samsung,cg-atla,merk,wang,bu-tyng}!millipore!blu