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From: roy%phri@UUNET.UU.NET (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Re: PostScript Developer's Kit
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Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 18:27:02 EST
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In <8711121753.AA08247@brillig.umd.edu> jhenry@rand-unix.ARPA (Jim Henry):
> I just called Adobe to get the PostScript Developer's Kit.  To get this kit
> you must write them a letter stating what application you intend to develop.

	I just sent email to adobe!postmaster expressing my desire to get
the kit and asking that my request be forwarded to the right person in the
company to handle it (postmaster: the ultimate smart mail router).  A week
later, it came with the morning mail.

	The kit, BTW, is chock full of information of interest to anybody
who cares about postscript.  It includes a case study of how, with what
appears to be a couple of person-months of effort devoted to software
tuning, the effective print speed of the PostScript output of a well known
word processing program was increased from about 10 ppm to about 30 ppm (on
a printer capable of such speeds).  This should put to rest the notion that
PostScript printers are inherently slow.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016