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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeXT/Adobe Display PostScript and NeWS
Message-ID: <1606@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 05:36:19 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 19 05:36:19 1987
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In article <8818@diamond.BBN.COM> mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) writes:
>I just saw a small news blurb claiming that NeXT and Adobe have signed
>an agreement to jointly develop a screen description language called
>Display PostScript, which would be completely compatible with the current
>PostScript page description language.
>
>This sounds an awful lot like NeWS.  Is there any relationship between
>these two efforts, or are Adobe and NeXT going to reinvent the wheel?

Pardon me, re-inventing the wheel ? Isn't this what Sun did when they
reverse engineered PostScript to produce news ?
(Which was probably a good thing considering what Adobe wants for
a license these days. It seems to have tripled since IBM and
Microsoft endorsed it).

I saw that blurb about his Stevieness and Adobe, and apart from saying
"display postscript" it was remarkably lacking in technical info.

It seemed to me to be a sort of "Were still here guys" sort of announcement.

I mean, how hard can it be doing display postscript if you already have the
source to printer postscript ? If you are going to render into a 
printer bitmap, how different can rendering into a bitmap for a
display device be ?
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