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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: PostScript standard?
Message-ID: <1819@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 13:04:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1819
Posted: Thu Oct  8 13:04:16 1987
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In article <976@titan.camcon.uucp> mrh@camcon.uucp (Mark Hughes) writes:

>Phoenix, authors of a cloned BIOS for *the* PC, have started marketing
>a clone of PostScript. Hopefully this will result in some cheaper laser
>printers emerging before long. I read somewhere that in addition to
>the large initial licence fee, manufacturers have to pay Adobe a royalty
>of several hundred dollars per printer.

My only fear here would be if there was a vast difference (vaster (?)
than it is now) between what the Phoenix PS puts on paper and what
rfPostScript puts down on, say, a phototypesetter. Especially for
small characters.

>
>Mark Hughes


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