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- From: smcgerty@unix1.tcd.ie (Stephen John McGerty)
- Subject: Re: Postscript support in OS , means what ??????????
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- References: <mac1.716512668@Ra.MsState.Edu> <1992Sep15.063633.26148@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:32:47 GMT
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- In <1992Sep15.063633.26148@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
- >In article <mac1.716512668@Ra.MsState.Edu> mac1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Mubashir Cheema) writes:
- >>
- >> OKay I am a novice. What does it mean when you that an OS fully
- >> supports Postscript ????
- >No, not at all. the PostScript support is merely a PostScript printer
- >driver, which the Mac has had for six years.
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- Perhaps they mean something a bit more advanced..
- I hear that the NeXT uses PostScript for displaying _everything_.
- Not just print-outs, but all on-screen text and graphics.
- This allows you to rescale pretty much everything. Neat, really.
- I know this would take rather a lot of processing power, but
- who knows what the future might bring...
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- >>Mubashir.
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- >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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