Xref: utzoo comp.sys.next:13250 comp.lang.postscript:7711 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!shelby!neon!lucid.com!campeau!jwz From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Font Directory Printing Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 03:08:18 GMT References: <1991Feb19.034200.27969@wam.umd.edu> <1991Feb22.183856.1400@shaman.com> Sender: usenet@lucid.com Organization: Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: jiro@shaman.com's message of 22 Feb 91 18:38:56 GMT In article <1991Feb22.183856.1400@shaman.com> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) wrote: > In article gessel@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel) writes: >> >>I've seen it mentioned before (here I think) that the Display >>Postscript Interpreter on the NeXT is about PostScript level 1.5. That >>is, it implements many of the features of level 2 (binary encoding, >>display postscript, color extensions, etc), but _not all_. > > BZZZZ. Sorry. My 2.0 Release has a PostScript version of 2.0.45.8. (This > is Workspace Version 217, System Release 2.0). So it does indeed appear > that the postscript version is level 2.0. Testy testy... Did you consider the possibility that that "2" refers to the major version of the NeXT release? The PS2 spec has only been out for a month or two, give it some time! I interpreted the "about 1.5" mentioned above to mean that the NeXT had about half of the functionality that was added between v1 and v2. Do you really think that adobe has a list of which language elements existed at, say, version 1.8? PostScript version 2 is a specification, not an implementation. Version numbers don't mean the same thing. -- Jamie Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com