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Subject: Re: PostScript vs. Interpress
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Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 01:35:00 EST
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From: ihnp4!sdcrdcf!darrelj@uw-beaver.arpa (Darrel VanBuer)

Xerox really uses Interpress.  The Xerox 8000 series (i.e. Star) has
been using it since introduction for printing (so for a couple of
years).  Interlisp D code to generate Interpress masters contains
dates starting mid 1982.  The Xerox 5700 laser printer supports
Interpress (for at least a year now), and it's announced for the 8700
and 9700.  There are things in the standard which Xerox has yet to
implement (e.g.  color, arbitrary rotation of text -- only 90 degree
multiples work).  I don't know for sure about Postscript, but
Interpress is designed to describe the _appearances_ of individual
pages (e.g. this symbol in that position), and no information about
the logical structure (like this is a paragraph).  Xerox no longer
sells anything which prints Press format documents (and were always
reluctant to), though Interlisp D still supports their generation.

Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD
System Development Corp.
2500 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90406
(213)820-4111 x5449
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