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In article <POLLACK.89Dec5120903@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu> pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
>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.
>
This is very interesting, as I have in my hand an FAX from PICA
Australia, giving details and price for Lasertalk PC available NOW
(price $995 Australian - halve to obtain US pricing).  When I rang the
company, the sales rep - who seemed to know Postscript quite well - said
that he had been using it for some months.

Re the showpage hidden ops.  Presumably Adobe will publish them when
they release full font details.  Would anyone from Adobe like to
comment?

One option to find these special "unlisted" instructions is to dump the
ROM contents using the PEEK operator posted a couple on months ago.  If
you look around, you can see the table containing all of the commands.
Most of these are listed, but there are some very interesting others.
When I tried some of these, I found that I was locked out (some cursing
in the general direction of Adobe Corp. ensued...), but some others
worked.  Unfortunately I have neither the time nor the desire to chase
this further.  You will also find a ML montior at the start of the ROMs.
It would be nice if somebody could figure out hot to get into it.


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