Re: PostScript compatible printers

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From: Richard Sexton
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 1988 07:18

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In article <1755@imagen.UUCP> geof@imagen.UUCP (Geoffrey Cooper) writes:
>
>Let us be fair.

Wake up. This is USENET.


:-)  if I really have to

>The reason is the US (and international) trademark laws.  "PostScript"
>is a trademark of Adobe systems, and they have sole control over the
>use of the name.  UltraScript (trademark by IMAGEN) was designed to be
>and <is> no more or less than PostScript; we refer to it (legally) as a
>PostScript compatible language.  Another way of saying this is that
>UltraScript interprets PostScript programs correctly.  The difference in
>names is the same one you see between IBM-PC's and the "compatibles."

>

>- Geof Cooper
>  Project Mudslide
>  IMAGEN Corporation, a subsidiary of QMS Inc.
>-- 
>{decwrl,sun,saber}!imagen!geof



So it works with Adobe fonts ?


-- 
                           AI is a shell game.
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard

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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Subject: Re: PostScript compatible printers
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