🚀 go-pugleaf

I understand why some groups have a "frequently asked questions"
period mailing. I brought up this issue a few months ago, and we went
round and round about it, touching upon Lasertalk, Lancaster's coding
style, Adobe's Ice, and trojan horse error handlers.

Lasertalk, which uses laserwriters to image bitmaps and bring them
back to a Mac or PC, is pretty inexpensive for the macintosh.
The more expensive PC version won't work for me, since my laptop has only 1
serial port and the program requires both mouse and laserwriter!

I don't think there would be anything too wrong about PERSONAL use of
a cracked or re-engineered protocol, but could see the trouble in a)
cracking lasertalk and selling a new product based upon pirated code
expensively licensed from Adobe, or selling adobe's fonts in either
outline or bitmap form.

Rather than trying to crack postscript to find the address of the
rendered bitmap, or a fake postscript viewer like NeWS, I have decided
to order Ultrascript PC, which looks like an authentic port of the
Adobe product to the 80286. It is advertized as being able to render
postscript into both PCX and TIFF, both of which are bitmap files. I
get the ability to print on my deskjet as a bonus.




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