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From: tbrakitz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Byron Rakitzis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Pre-processing PostScript on the mac.
Message-ID: <13520@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 2 Feb 90 21:49:32 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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I have a question for mac gurus: say that there are a lot of macs on a
network which share a laserwriter, and say that a lot of users print
out things which take up a lot of PostScript processing time on the
Laserwriter. Would it be faster to create 300dpi bitmaps on the Macs
themselves (with a Mac-based PostScript interpreter) and then dump
those bitmaps to the LaserWriter? I know that this would be faster in
the case of various font magic; creating a 300dpi bitmap font and then
printing from that is very speedy indeed. 

Has anyone looked into this issue? Perhaps with the advent of a
multi-tasking System (that's a really scary thought) this wouldn't be
such a bad idea. 

Comments?

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Byron Rakitzis. (tbrakitz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU)