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Subject: Re: RSG 3.0 versus Laserprep 3.3
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Date: Tue, 5-May-87 18:23:52 EDT
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Date: Tue, 5 May 87 12:02:02 CDT
From: brian@sally.utexas.edu (Brian H. Powell)

     I haven't run across any bugs in the 3.3 LaserPrep, but I haven't
exercised it thoroughly.  I knew there were bugs in the 3.2 Prep, and
they were really inconvenient to work around.  To the best of my knowledge,
those have been repaired in 3.3.  There are quite a few changes in the 3.3
driver.  There are new abilities that weren't in the old driver.  Also,
the distribution of responsibilities between the Prep and the Driver have
changed radically.  (There are some things, such as font renaming, that
used to be done by the prep.  Now they are done by the driver.  (i.e.,
it doesn't rename the font until right before it's used in the document.))
     So, since the new driver is radically different from the 3.2 driver, I
wouldn't be surprised if new bugs were present, especially in more obscure
parts of the driver that a page layout tool would be likely to touch.  I
wouldn't rule out RSG as the culprit, though.

Brian H. Powell
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[Moderator's note:  Laserprep 3.3 did break some applications, notably
	David Dunham's Miniwriter (and RSG3).  Whether this is because
	of problems in Laserprep or incorrect use of the programs isn't
	known -- chuq]
Chuq Von Rospach	chuq@sun.COM		[I don't read flames]

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