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From: Rudy.Nedved@A.CS.CMU.EDU
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Subject: Re: postscript?
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Date: Thu, 22-May-86 11:47:00 EDT
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PostScript is a new standard (of sorts) for communicating with a printer.
The standard is actually a stack oriented language based on the language
Forth and has fairly powerful primitives for doing graphics. The powerful
primitives and the power of the language allow you to produce very detailed
and varying graphics....text to simple geometric shapes to various level
of shading of polygons to raw bit maps.

A good chunk of the people that developed PostScript are from Xerox but
now have formed or work for a company called Adobe. Of course within a
year of Adobe building up clients -- Xerox came out with InterPress which
was rumored to exists in some form for several years.

Given Adobe is a responsive company, the PostScript language is powerful
and flexiable and the printers out there that understand PostScript fit
CMU's needs (at least in quality -- speed and duty cycle is another thing),
it looks like PostScript is at least a CMU printing file format standard.

-Rudy