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Article #5073a plea
From: bukys
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 14:12
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 14:12
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This is a futile plea, I know, but here it is.
Please stamp out bad PostScript generators.
It seems like half of the Postscript files my users pick up off the net
are unprintable.
Sub-pleas:
Don't mark the file conformant if it's not.
How many times have I pasted in a plain "%!" to prevent
my spooler from trying to page-reverse (and hence mangle)
a file that is really non-conformant.
Don't use printer-specific features without testing for
their existence. My most recent specimen here was the
use of "a4".
Don't depend on a being able to do an "exitserver".
Those Macintosh "LaserPrep" files are one of the most
ill-conceived notions around. Do they really save that much
time?
Don't put unnecessary memory allocation inside a loop. I just
ran across this:
{ currentfile 1 string readhexstring pop } image
which allocates a 1-byte string (in this case, 262144 times).
Thank you for listening.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!bukys@cs.rochester.edu From: bukys@cs.rochester.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: a plea Message-ID: <9103191412.AA27314@stork.cs.rochester.edu> Date: 19 Mar 91 14:12:33 GMT Sender: root@cs.rochester.edu (Charlie Root) Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester Lines: 29