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From: peter@dalcsug.UUCP
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Subject: Re: PostScript standard?
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Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 11:29:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  7 11:29:12 1987
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Reply-To: peter@dalcsug.UUCP (Peter Philip)
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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In article <1757@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>In article <170@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> dave@viper.UUCP (David Messer) writes:
>>In article <255@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> zwicky%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Elizabeth Zwicky) writes:
>> >So it would be possible to write one's own
>> >PostScript-like language interpreter. It could in fact, duplicate
>> >the functionality of Adobe's PostScript identically.
>>
>>Not quite, it couldn't duplicate the Font's that Adobe uses,
>>they are copyrighted.  They could have the same form-factor
>>however.
>
>As has been pointed out previously, having the real Adobe fonts is only half
>of it. Its the secret magic fudge that Adobe does to those fonts that is
>going to set PostScript apart from the clones.
>
>
>>Copyright 1987 David Messer -- All Rights Reserved
>-- 
>Richard J. Sexton

This seems to sugest that the Adobe interpreter does something special
when it renders the fonts, correct??

Given all of this, would it not be possible to write a PS interpreter for
, say, the IBM PC; purchase the REAL fonts from Adobe; get a cheap
non-postscript laser printer and *poof* have a postscript capable printer?

It seems to me, that if the interpreter was sold cheaply, it would bring
postscript capability to the masses.  Where are the faults in my logic?
BTW - I realize that PS takes up lots of RAM but there are 2Mb expansion
boards for the IBM and PC's such as the Amiga have no trouble with RAM
expansion.

Peter Philip