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Article #9119Re: PostScript Printers Attached to Facsimile Boards
From: Leslie Mikesell
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 06:00
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 06:00
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In article <9464@imagen.UUCP> ib@apolling (Ivan N. Bach) writes: >Adobe proposed last year a new use for PostScript. We are going to have >a fax board which will determine whether the receiving facsimile machine >is connected to a PostScript printer. >Most of the time you will not look at the transmitted PostScript code, >but you will still pay for its readability. Are you implying that the postscript code will not be compressed for transmission as fax image data is? Or is there some reason to believe that another format would be more compact than compressed ascii postscript? If the application generating the code takes care to redefine the common operations to single character names, plain text postscript doesn't have to be especially bulky anyway. Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!gargoyle!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: PostScript Printers Attached to Facsimile Boards Message-ID: <1990Mar1.060030.13409@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 1 Mar 90 06:00:30 GMT References: <9464@imagen.UUCP> Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX Lines: 17