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Article #7490Question from Ignorant
From: Jukka Lindgren
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1988 00:46
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1988 00:46
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In my job, we are searching for a new image processing system.
Today, when discussing about possible choices, we noticed one system,
that has compatibility with postcript-language. A salesman from this
company had described the postcript with an example:
"If you take for example a letter 'A' (ASCII=65), in postcript
it is represented by a series of lines that actually are a drawing of
the letter 'A'."
like this:
/\
line 1 ----> / \ <--- line 2
/----\
/ ^ \
^
^- line 3
But I am not so sure... Until now I have thought that the postscript
doesn't "draw" individual letters, but merely "tells" the type-setter
that
"there is the beginning of text column (x1,y1) and it ends at (x2,y2)
and it contains the following text with following type- and size setting.
Am I right or am I right ?
Thank you in advance...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!santra!clinet!toweri From: toweri@clinet.FI (Jukka Lindgren) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Question from Ignorant Summary: Is there ASCII Keywords: question Message-ID: <692@clinet.FI> Date: 14 Sep 88 00:46:57 GMT Reply-To: toweri@clinet.UUCP (Jukka Lindgren) Organization: City Lines Oy, Helsinki, Finland Lines: 27