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From: jae@c-art.UUCP (Yukon Kid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: display list vs. buffering (was complete PS description)
Message-ID: <273@c-art.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 89 17:48:54 GMT
References: <POLLACK.89Dec4133944@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu> <28@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <1651@intercon.com> <1751@tfd.UUCP> <886@wet.UUCP>
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In article <886@wet.UUCP> capslock@wet.UUCP (Allen Crider) writes:
|In article <1751@tfd.UUCP> geller@tfd.UUCP (David Geller) writes:
|>
|>Can anyone assist me in compiling a list of PostScript compatible
|>devices that use display lists and banding versus entire page buffering?
|>Thanks.
|>
| I believe the only machines that use buffering are Varityper, Autologic
|and devices using the Ultre*Setter as a recorder. I'm not sure if either of 
|these implementations construct their page buffer from a display list or not.

The most common (and fastest) PostScript interpreter found writing 
`in stripes' (you do not want to buffer a 2500dpi image) to hi-res 
output devices such as the Ultre Setter or ECRM Pelbox is the Hyphen 
PostScript interpreter.  The interpreter is found in many brands of
high resolution typesetters.

Send me e-mail if you're interested in Hyphen's PostScript interpreter 
running under Unix on Sun or Apollo.

-john

John Eadie   _Computing Art Inc_ (416) 536-9951  FAX (416) 530 0714 
Studio #303, 25 Liberty St, Toronto .. jeadie@Sun.COM | jae@c-art.UUCP

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