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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript Printers Attached to Facsimile Boards
Message-ID: <1990Mar1.060030.13409@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 1 Mar 90 06:00:30 GMT
References: <9464@imagen.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <9464@imagen.UUCP> ib@apolling (Ivan N. Bach) writes:
>Adobe proposed last year a new use for PostScript.  We are going to have
>a fax board which will determine whether the receiving facsimile machine
>is connected to a PostScript printer.

>Most of the time you will not look at the transmitted PostScript code,
>but you will still pay for its readability.

Are you implying that the postscript code will not be compressed for
transmission as fax image data is?   Or is there some reason to believe
that another format would be more compact than compressed ascii postscript?
If the application generating the code takes care to redefine the common
operations to single character names, plain text postscript doesn't have
to be especially bulky anyway.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us