Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!toto.cis.ohio-state.edu!jordan_b_pollack From: jordan_b_pollack@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Bitmap of PostScript code.. Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 90 20:40:56 GMT References: <6675@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <1990Feb14.041704.14844@athena.mit.edu> <2761@bacchus.dec.com> <30006@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com> <17975@rpp386.cactus.org> <1990Feb19.172134.12850@intercon.com> <2839@bacchus.dec.com> Sender: usenet_news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 23 In-reply-to: kent@wsl.dec.com's message of 21 Feb 90 08:15:42 GMT Chris Kent writes: >> This isn't about stifling progress folks -- let's be fair. This is about >> not wanting to pay for using the fruits of Adobe's labor. This isn't quite so. Adobe got paid for its labor with a walloping piece of the money paid for my Apple Laserwriter and will recieve a walloping piece of the money going to QMS for Ultrascript to solve MY problem of desktop presentation of scientific results. And much of the fruit, in the first place, was developed by Xerox anyhow! (obligatory Adobe Bash:) Since I have official Postscript in a printer connected to workstation why should I have have to buy it again for to see bitmaps displayed, if it is technically possible to get them back from the printer? Imagine the cost of a NeXT machine if Jobs had to buy a separate postscript/font license for the printer! -- 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