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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next Wish List
Message-ID: <344@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 3 Dec 90 18:49:02 GMT
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In article <917@autodesk.COM> glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) writes:
>Say just how much of PS is in the Mac version of Ilus. anyway?
>Enquiring minds and all of that stuff.. 

There is very little of PS in any version of Illustrator, really, in
the sense of a language interpreter.  There is a simplified parser
that can recognize PostScript tokens and look for ones that are of
interest to Illustrator, but it can't execute any of the code.  Some of
the fill, stroke, and clip algorithms also appear to be built into the
drawing code in Illustrator, but to my knowledge there isn't any
language mechanism at all.

>Advertisements for others: if you're doing serious DPS hacking
>on your cube, be sure and pick up a copy of "Thinking In PostScript"
>by Glenn Reid.

Thanks!