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From: matt@inuxg.UUCP (Matt Verner)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: DDL:  Is it Impress??
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Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 09:45:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  2 09:45:35 1986
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> In <1986Nov29.000913.28639@utcs.uucp> romwa@utcs.uucp (Mark Dornfeld) writes:
> > The new document description language (DDL) which seems to be
> > a worthy Postscript rival is one of Imagen's products.
> 
> 	PostScript is wonderful.  If DDL is something which has roughly the
> same capabilites as PostScript, but is different just for the sake of being
> different, why bother?  My personal opinion is that any laser printer
> company that doesn't come out with a true PostScript printer soon is headed
> for the tubes.
> -- 
> Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy

A qoute from this months BYTE:

"...DDL supports both binary and ASCII representation (PostScipt is ASCII only),
intelligent scaling of bit-map characters (PostScipt does not), composite 
objects (once again, PostScipt does not), full object caching (PostScript 
supports font-only object caching), and document layout (guess what? PostScipt
does not)."  

Don't get me wrong, I happen to have a QMS ps800 that, when it decides to run atall, is a wonderfull PostScript printer.  But PostScript is hardly the most
powerfull or the best solution around.  It just happens to have taken off 
quicker.  In my opinion solely due to Apples backing of it with the laserwriter.


 Matt Verner   				UUCP:  ...ihnp4!inuxc!matt
 AT&T Graphics Software Laboratory	AT&T:  (317) 352-6149
 Indianapolis,  IN

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