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From: ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath)
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Subject: Re: System 7.0 Q & A
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Date: 26 May 89 19:50:19 GMT
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In article <10802@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> boone@oce.orst.edu (Jeff Boone) writes:

>If Apple dumps Postscript altogether, I think they will be forcing
>alot of graphic designers/publishers into an alternative platform
>(NeXT) which would be very unfortunate.

From article <1328@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, by wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins):
>   Apple has stated that they intend to maintain support for PostScript in
> their product line...Their current innovations
> with outline fonts and the like are, I think, intended mainly to bring some
> of the benefits of PostScript to the non-PostScript user, rather than to
> force QuickDraw into the low-level printing process in cases where it isn't
> now.

To add additional support to this view, note that the new print architecture
includes three standard rendering packages: QD->raster, QD->vector, and
QD->PostScript.  The second is new, the last writes "generic" (i.e. not
LaserWriter-dependent) PostScript (The bit about LW-indep may or may not be
in the conference proceedings: it was the verbal response to my direct
question at the printing session).

Perhaps more to the point, Adobe has agreed to provide a converter for
Apple-to-Adobe font translation, so the graphic designer will have more
options, not fewer, along with superior on-screen rendering.  Presumably
Linotronic, if they haven't agreed to already, will also accept Apple outline
fonts (I don't remember).  Given the large amount of Mac-draft and Lino-final
DTP out there, I'd be surprised if they didn't...

=Ned Horvath=