Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!toto.cis.ohio-state.edu!pollack From: pollack@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jordan B Pollack) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Bitmap of PostScript code.. Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 90 16:09:05 GMT References: <17948@rpp386.cactus.org> <4917@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <1990Feb14.041704.14844@athena.mit.edu> <1990Feb15.065013.20929@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <2782@bacchus.dec.com> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: na Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 31 In-reply-to: kent@wsl.dec.com's message of 16 Feb 90 03:02:50 GMT I understand why some groups have a "frequently asked questions" period mailing. I brought up this issue a few months ago, and we went round and round about it, touching upon Lasertalk, Lancaster's coding style, Adobe's Ice, and trojan horse error handlers. Lasertalk, which uses laserwriters to image bitmaps and bring them back to a Mac or PC, is pretty inexpensive for the macintosh. The more expensive PC version won't work for me, since my laptop has only 1 serial port and the program requires both mouse and laserwriter! I don't think there would be anything too wrong about PERSONAL use of a cracked or re-engineered protocol, but could see the trouble in a) cracking lasertalk and selling a new product based upon pirated code expensively licensed from Adobe, or selling adobe's fonts in either outline or bitmap form. Rather than trying to crack postscript to find the address of the rendered bitmap, or a fake postscript viewer like NeWS, I have decided to order Ultrascript PC, which looks like an authentic port of the Adobe product to the 80286. It is advertized as being able to render postscript into both PCX and TIFF, both of which are bitmap files. I get the ability to print on my deskjet as a bonus. -- Jordan Pollack Assistant Professor CIS Dept/OSU Laboratory for AI Research 2036 Neil Ave Email: pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210 Fax/Phone: (614) 292-4890