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From: feldman@umd5.umd.edu (Mark Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Bitmaps to non-NeXT printers (was Re: Some Random NeXT Thoughts)
Keywords: NeXT Speculation Cost Future Marketing
Message-ID: <4707@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 89 13:10:03 GMT
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Reply-To: feldman@umd5.umd.edu (Mark Feldman)
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In article <8473@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
>
>No, no, no.  Use the DPS in the cube to handle the PostScript, and
>just send bitmaps to the printer.  Especially with the new DJ+,
>this should work *very* well.
>
>> What would make sense would be to port the Ghostscript Postscript
>> to HP PCL converter for the NeXT machine.  Ghostscript builds the
>
>Why, with DSP in the cube?
>
>-tom

Exporting PostScript generated on the NeXT to other NeXTs (that's how remote
printing is done), non-NeXTs, and non-NeXT printers is kosher, but doing the
same with the bitmaps generated by DPS on the NeXT is not.

Here is an excerpt from the ``NeXT Software License Agreement (Preliminary
Software Releases)'' contained in the ``Read this first!'' booklet that
comes with the NeXT:
	...
	You agree not to make use of the NeXT Preliminary Software, directly
	or indirectly, to print bitmap images generated by the NeXT
	Preliminary Software, or to generate fonts or typefaces, other than
	on a single NeXT Computer in conjunction with a single NeXT computer.
	...
And, of course, Mr. Phelps, should you or any of your IM staff break the
seal on a Software Release 0.8 optical disk, that will constitute acceptance
of the accompanying license agreement.

NeXT (printers), Adobe (PostScript), and Linotype AG (fonts) are protecting
themselves.  Is the way that they are going about it reasonable?  You
decide.

So, for a non-NeXT, non-PostScript printer, you will need Postscript to
printer software (e.g., Ghostscript).

	Mark