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From: ric@rioja.ifs.umich.edu (Richard Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: NeWS and Display PostScript
Keywords: NeWS, Display PostScript
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Date: 10 Feb 89 00:39:52 GMT
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What's the beef between Adobe and Sun?? I've just started reading 
Adobe's Display PostScript System Reference manual and it sounds
like Adobe doesn't like Sun's NeWS system at all. In the manual's
Question and Answers section, Adobe proudly reports that
several OEMs are supporting DPS including NeXT, DEC, and IBM.
Then, on the *last* page, the question pops up, What about NeWS?
Adobe says that NeWS is an imaging model and window system instead
of DPS which is just an imaging model; that NeWS's imaging model
is not compatible with PostScript; that NeWS's extensions are not the 
same thing as DPS; and that NeWS can't use the Adobe Type Library.

It was my understanding that Sun had committed to full
Postscript and DPS compatibility. Given this, and the fact that
DPS and NeWS are practically the same thing (DPS has .psw files;
NeWS .cps files, et alia, ad nauseum...), what happened between
the two companies to cause such low esteem and bad feelings? Why
the attempt by Adobe to effectivly scuttle NeWS???