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- From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen)
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- Subject: Re: Postscript Printing Comments? (was) Re: Printers
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 23:21:32 GMT
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- Excerpts from ext.andrew: 10-Nov-92 Re: Postscript Printing Com.. Robert
- Andrew Ryan@andre (3037+0)
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- > Definitely. I think this is where ATK has an opportunity. If a
- > reasonably complete WYSIWYG editor could be written in ATK I think it
- > would be a very fine feather in our cap so to speak. Seen many free
- > WYSIWYG editors? I'm not talking full function, but enough so that
- > anything normally done with ez and troff looks right on screen.
-
- I think this is a real red herring and a good way to sink your
- consortium by adding useless work. With ports of MS Word and FrameMaker
- to Macs, PCs, and X, there's no way EZ is going to be able to compete in
- terms of WYSIWYG functionality. The niche that EZ has is based on
- simple multi-media support, and being NON-wysiwyg -- that is, displaying
- a document based on the right way of displaying it for the context,
- rather than trying to force everything in the world into being a piece
- of paper. Concentrate on
- What-You-See-Looks-Good-For-Your-Display-Context (WYSLGFYDC?).
-
- Bill
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