Xref: utzoo comp.lang.postscript:799 comp.fonts:258 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.fonts Subject: Re: PostScript compatible printers Summary: or not Message-ID: <5090@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 1 Aug 88 07:18:15 GMT References: <6085@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1902@stpstn.UUCP> <1755@imagen.UUCP> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 33 In article <1755@imagen.UUCP> geof@imagen.UUCP (Geoffrey Cooper) writes: > >Let us be fair. Wake up. This is USENET. :-) if I really have to >The reason is the US (and international) trademark laws. "PostScript" >is a trademark of Adobe systems, and they have sole control over the >use of the name. UltraScript (trademark by IMAGEN) was designed to be >and no more or less than PostScript; we refer to it (legally) as a >PostScript compatible language. Another way of saying this is that >UltraScript interprets PostScript programs correctly. The difference in >names is the same one you see between IBM-PC's and the "compatibles." > >- Geof Cooper > Project Mudslide > IMAGEN Corporation, a subsidiary of QMS Inc. >-- >{decwrl,sun,saber}!imagen!geof So it works with Adobe fonts ? -- AI is a shell game. richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard