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From: john@IASTATE.EDU (Hascall John Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: a plea
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.094008@IASTATE.EDU>
Date: 19 Mar 91 15:40:08 GMT
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In article <9103191412.AA27314@stork.cs.rochester.edu>, bukys@cs.rochester.edu
writes:
> This is a futile plea, I know, but here it is.
> 
> 	Please stamp out bad PostScript generators.
> 
> It seems like half of the Postscript files my users pick up off the net
> are unprintable.

   Hear! Hear!  And many commercial applications are just as bad (almost
every ``PostScript'' file I've seen from a MAC application is unprintable
on anything but a LaserWriter).

   Another sub-plea:

       PLEASE put in NEWLINES at reasonable intervals!

--
John Hascall                        An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.
Project Vincent
Iowa State University Computation Center                       john@iastate.edu
Ames, IA  50011                                                  (515) 294-9551