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From: tim@ora.UUCP (Tim O'Reilly)
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Subject: Re: devps vs. Transcript
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Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 21:12:50 EDT
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In article <2660@dalcs.UUCP>, david@dalcs.UUCP (David Trueman) writes:
> Has anyone used the devps package from Pipeline Associates for interfacing with
> a postscript printer?  I would appreciate any positive or negative comments,
> or comparisons with Transcript from Adobe.  Devps is considerably less
> expensive than Transcript.

I'm not at all unbiased, since I know Steve Kochan and Pat
Wood (the Pipeline Associates people) quite well from
working with them on the troff book I did for Hayden (they
are consulting editors for the series).  We used devps to
typeset that book, and since then have become a reseller for the
product. 

With that proviso, I will say that I think devps is a great
package.  I haven't used transcript yet, and so I can't
compare. (We just got an evaluation copy, and I'd be glad to
post information after I've looked at it.)  However, from my
conversations with the people at Adobe, I get the feeling
that it's a bit of an orphan there.  One guy I talked to at
Adobe seemed to suggest that he himself didn't doubt
devps was better than transcript.
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