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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Q & A
Message-ID: <7267@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 12 May 89 20:31:29 GMT
References: <13436@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <30518@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <30518@apple.Apple.COM> mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes:
>There is going to be a Writing a Printer Driver development kit.  The reason
>Apple hasn't documented these things in the past is because anyone who had
>done this in the past would now break.  Now that the printing architecture
>is being completely rewritten, you can expect a different reaction from
>Apple when you want to write a printer driver...

Which is great, of course.  My only concern is, are you saying that
existing printer drivers will break under System 7.0?  There are some
fifty-plus products using nonstandard printer drivers on the market at
present, and more in the pipeline (including my current client's
product).  Again, this would be double-plus ungood to do.  An Apple
employee told me not two weeks ago that the inner printing architecture
would not be changing in any big way for exactly this reason; this was
a week before the System 7.0 news flashes.  Could someone clarify the
situation with regard to backwards compatibility?  Thanks!
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"Disclaimers are for running-dog lackeys of the bourgeoisie; free-thinking
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