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From: fmr@cwi.nl (Frank Rahmani)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Re: ditroff that produces PostScript
Message-ID: <510@sering.cwi.nl>
Date: 21 May 88 14:25:19 GMT
References: <5275@ico.ISC.COM>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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> as to the advantages of PostScript files...
>> 1.  They are truly device- and resolution-independent.  A PostScript
>> document can be printed on any PostScript printer.
This is simply not true!
> 
> The truth of the second sentence contradicts the first, since not all
> printers are PostScript printers.
And not all PostScript printers are the same. It depends on the
interpreter and amount of memory in your PostScript printer if
it will print a certain (conforming) PostScript file. I have lots
of files around that will print on one of our PostScript printers
and generate errors only on the other. This is also mentioned in
the Red Book, too lazy to look it up now. Says something like:
if you can really use this PostScript command, etc. depends on
the interpreter in your printer.
By the way, piping tools/commands is THE underlying phylosophy of 
UNIX(tm), so the whole discussion about a PostScript generating
ditroff is rather worthless.
fmr@cwi.nl
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