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From: richard@gryphon.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal (IFF QuickDraw)
Keywords: PostScript
Message-ID: <4122@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 20 May 88 18:30:51 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Posted: Fri May 20 14:30:51 1988

In article <5550@megaron.arizona.edu> rogerh@arizona.edu (Roger Hayes) writes:
>The fact that PostScript is a complete language makes it unsuitable
>for an interchange format.  In order to decipher a PostScript file,
>you have to implement a PostScript interpreter -- not a trivial task,
>and certainly not something we want to put inside every program.
>For an example of the kinds of problems it causes, look at the difficulty
>of printing Mac-generated file on a Unix machine (you have to find the
>right preface, twiddle it to work as a preface, twiddle it again to
>survive the spooling software,...).

Duh.

PostScript the language, should not, IMHO be adapted as an IFF type.
The imaging model should be followed as we invent our own "quickdraw".

>The advantage of PostScript for this use is its device-independance.
>Other formats share that advantage and are simpler to decode.

"Other standards" shouldnt be IFF types either.



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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                          rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard