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From: gregb@dowjone.UUCP (Greg_Baber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Display PostScript
Message-ID: <401@gregb.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 88 10:38:34 GMT
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Reply-To: gregb@gregb.UUCP (Greg_Baber)
Organization: Dow Jones, Inc. Princeton, NJ
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In reading through the stuff on Display PostScript, I think I read where
for a certain time, there will be two "versions" of PostScript, printer
PostScript and "display" PostScript. The extensions required for the display
version will be incompatible with those currently in the thousands of PS
compatible printers, but that Adobe was hoping to "unite" these two versions
in the future.

My concern is being able to render pages identically both on the screen and
on paper. Will it be possible to take a Display PostScript file and 
image it on a printer without first stripping out all of the DP specific
extensions, or am I missing something?
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