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Article #5075Re: a plea
From: Hascall John Paul
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 15:40
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 15:40
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In article <9103191412.AA27314@stork.cs.rochester.edu>, bukys@cs.rochester.edu
writes:
> 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.
Hear! Hear! And many commercial applications are just as bad (almost
every ``PostScript'' file I've seen from a MAC application is unprintable
on anything but a LaserWriter).
Another sub-plea:
PLEASE put in NEWLINES at reasonable intervals!
--
John Hascall An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.
Project Vincent
Iowa State University Computation Center john@iastate.edu
Ames, IA 50011 (515) 294-9551
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ceres.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!IASTATE.EDU!john From: john@IASTATE.EDU (Hascall John Paul) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: a plea Message-ID: <1991Mar19.094008@IASTATE.EDU> Date: 19 Mar 91 15:40:08 GMT References: <9103191412.AA27314@stork.cs.rochester.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: john@IASTATE.EDU (Hascall John Paul) Organization: Iowa State University Lines: 22