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From: bradlee@cg-atla.UUCP (Rob Bradlee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Update on SPARCprinter/NeWSprint resolution problem
Message-ID: <9672@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 91 12:45:30 GMT
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Reply-To: bradlee@cg-atla.UUCP (Rob Bradlee)
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In article <41@ftms.UUCP> brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>
>are very concerned about what I had to say.  If you are looking into the
>getting the product, or already have the product, it will be changing, as
>all software improves with age.
>
>Stay tuned for further details.  This is an exciting product that WILL improve
>with age.

Here are a couple of further suggestions for improvement from a different
perspective.

1) Allow third party screening.  If Sun is trying to compete with Adobe
they could put hooks into Newsprint to allow independent developers to
use their own software or hardware screening approach.

2) Make banding work.  (I don't know that it doesn't, I'm just assuming).
If people ever want to drive higher resolution devices (like film recorders
for instance) they will need to have display list creation and banding
as options.



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