Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Using a postscript printer for previewing? Message-ID: <1634@intercon.com> Date: 15 Dec 89 16:31:49 GMT References: <28@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <17433@rpp386.cactus.org> <227@dino.cs.iastate.edu> Sender: news@intercon.com Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Lines: 24 Don Lancaster's columns are overrated. He finds odd tidbits and then prints things that imply he knows more about what's going on. He hasn't said anything about what FlxProc does, or coloring procedures, or anything more interesting than various hacks to get character bitmaps back to his Apple II. He seems mainly interested in ways to treat a LaserWriter as a 300dpi raster printer. Grumble. Maybe he should buy a LaserJet :-). Unless you're debugging a new PS printer, what's the use of a ROM monitor, beyond being able to say "I know something you don't know?" Except for Type 1 fonts, I generally find that when I want to do something that Adobe doesn't document, it's because I'm approaching the problem in the wrong way. LaserTalk is the only real exception, and that's only because Adobe keeps not shipping Display PostScript for the Macintosh, even though they also keep showing it at MacWorld as a "technology demonstration." I suppose I can understand that they want Apple to support it, but this seems to be an unrealistic hope at this point, and the success of ATM seems to show that real live Display PostScript would have a pretty high demand in the Macintosh market... Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation --