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From: wilson@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Nathan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Laserwriters vs. Transfer modes
Summary: Why don't LWs support modes and rgns?
Keywords: Laserwriter postscript modes regions
Message-ID: <6496@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 18 Nov 88 18:28:15 GMT
Reply-To: wilson@csli.UUCP (Nathan Wilson)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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Could someone in the know with regard to PostScript or LaserWriter drivers
please explain why it is that the LWII NTX doesn't support all the transfer
modes rather than just srcCopy and scrNotCopy?  And why it doesn't support
regions?  I personally really like to be able to use inverted objects and
transparent objects (ie the 'white' bits in patterns are clear), and it
would be nice to get them to come out on the LaserWriter as well as the
ImageWriter.  Is this just laziness on the part of Apple because no one
has asked for it or is there some underlying reason that makes it really
hard?  Are there graphics packages out there that support transparent,
invert or 'Bic' mode on the laserwriter?  SuperPaint 1.0 supports
transparent on the screen but it don't come out on the LW. :-(

	Please, somebody answer!
		Nathan Wilson
		Teleos Research
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These aren't opinions, they're questions so I guess I don't need to say
anything.