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Re: Using a postscript printer for previewing?

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From: Jordan B Pollack
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1989 17:09
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OK, I called Emerald City, and LASERTALK is NOT available for the PC,
only the MAC. The technical representative thinks that a new header is
placed on an EPSF file, and SHOWPAGE is replaced by an undocumented
function whose access and description were purchased from Adobe.

Unthinkingly, my proposal involved a trojan horse security gap, which
Fort Adobe has already protected for. Imagine being able to get
bitmaps for proprietary fonts back to the host!  So I guess its
probably impossible without a lot of money.  But, if the feature is
undocumented and inside all apple laserwriters from day 1, surely it
can be used, given this knowledge, which could certainly be obtained
by examining a file sent by lasertalk to a laserwriter, unless
that is protected by law....
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