Summary: Smoothing on non-Apple printers

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From: Fred Hollander
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1989 15:40

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I asked why non-Apple laser printers don't do font and bitmap
smoothing.  The response was that Apple's laser prep contains the
smoothing code and it checks to see if it's on a LaserWriter before
executing.

Also, the LaserWriter has enhanced PostScript, so PS files generated
for the LaserWriter may contain "offending commands" on other PS
printers.

Thanks for the responses,

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
hollander@ti.com

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.

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Subject: Summary:  Smoothing on non-Apple printers
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