Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal (IFF QuickDraw) Message-ID: <9387@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: 23 May 88 21:50:51 GMT References: <1760@van-bc.UUCP> <5967@well.UUCP> <162@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <995@sandino.quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 34 In article <995@sandino.quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes: >In article <162@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes: >> In article <5967@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >> > o It's not public domain. >I don't know what domain postscript is in, but last I heard there was >nothing to stop anyone from writing their own postscript interpreter. >I don't believe Adobe OWNS postscript, they just invented it. There >is a set of books defining the language. I suggest you read up a little bit. PostScript is definitely owned by Adobe. The set of books was written by Adobe. etc, etc. On the other hand. There are two PD postscript interpretors which I know of. The first was written in 68k assembly language specifically for Amiga's. It's supposedly slow and incomplete, but I've never used it. The other came through the comp.sources.unix group late last fall. It's the same sort of thing as Display Postscript, but I see no reason why a driver couldn't be written for it which drove some sort of printer. It's somewhat portable, but is written for Unix. I don't know if it's portable enough to run on an Amiga. It's written to be able to support a variety of displays. It's a large package ... I don't know offhand if it's very complete or not. >I'm not positive of this, can anyone confirm it? I'm certain of what I just said. -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- SKA: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Goodbye RAH.