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Subject: LaserWriter/PostScript in BYTE
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Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 01:45:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 10 01:45:00 1985
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From: RSanders@DENVER.ARPA

The most recent BYTE magazine (2/85) has an article titled "The
Macintosh Office" which describes the LaserWriter.  Most of the info has
already been seen on Laser-Lovers, except for an interesting tidbit in a
side box title "Adobe Systems and the PostScript Language":

"...  the fonts are sent as mathematical outlines (based on Bezier
cubics) that can be stroked, filled, scaled, oriented or used as
clipping boundaries."

Since I am almost ignorant in this area, can someone explain "Bezier
cubics"?  I've never heard the term before.

-- Rex