Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!santra!clinet!toweri
From: toweri@clinet.FI (Jukka Lindgren)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Question from Ignorant
Summary: Is there ASCII
Keywords: question
Message-ID: <692@clinet.FI>
Date: 14 Sep 88 00:46:57 GMT
Reply-To: toweri@clinet.UUCP (Jukka Lindgren)
Organization: City Lines Oy, Helsinki, Finland
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	In my job, we are searching for a new image processing system.
Today, when discussing about possible choices, we noticed one system,
that has compatibility with postcript-language. A salesman from this
company had described the postcript with an example:

	"If you take for example a letter 'A' (ASCII=65), in postcript
it is represented by a series of lines that actually are a drawing of
the letter 'A'."

like this:
                        /\
         line 1  ----> /  \ <--- line 2
                      /----\
                     /  ^   \
                        ^
			^- line 3

But I am not so sure...  Until now I have thought that the postscript
doesn't "draw" individual letters, but merely "tells" the type-setter
that
 "there is the beginning of text column (x1,y1) and it ends at (x2,y2)
  and it contains the following text with following type- and size setting.

Am I right or am I right ?

Thank you in advance...