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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Generating Postscript with TrueType
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Date: 22 Mar 91 14:42:00 GMT
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In article <1991Mar22.033251.3536@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>the laser prinetr drivers. One might hope that this will also generate
>self-contained STANDARD postscript that can be printed on UNIX machines,
>incorporated into TeX etc, unlike the rigamarole that is currently produced- ie
>only 7bits usage, no weird machine language instructions etc.

Tee-hee.  Not from Apple; to paraphrase Paul Simon, "Still downloading
68000-machine-code after all of these years."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(you have to sing this part real fast to get the right effect.)

Adobe has said they're developing a real PostScript printer driver;
Apple's driver really IS a LaserWriter driver, not a general one.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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