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Re: Postscript Printing Comments? (was) Re: Printers

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From: Bill Janssen
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:21
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Excerpts from ext.andrew: 10-Nov-92 Re: Postscript Printing Com.. Robert
Andrew Ryan@andre (3037+0)

> Definitely.  I think this is where ATK has an opportunity.  If a
> reasonably complete WYSIWYG editor could be written in ATK I think it
> would be a very fine feather in our cap so to speak.  Seen many free
> WYSIWYG editors?  I'm not talking full function, but enough so that
> anything normally done with ez and troff looks right on screen.

I think this is a real red herring and a good way to sink your
consortium by adding useless work.  With ports of MS Word and FrameMaker
to Macs, PCs, and X, there's no way EZ is going to be able to compete in
terms of WYSIWYG functionality.  The niche that EZ has is based on
simple multi-media support, and being NON-wysiwyg -- that is, displaying
a document based on the right way of displaying it for the context,
rather than trying to force everything in the world into being a piece
of paper.  Concentrate on
What-You-See-Looks-Good-For-Your-Display-Context (WYSLGFYDC?).

Bill
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