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Article #12271Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?
From: TaliesinSoft
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:04
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:04
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:38:43 -0600, Dave Balderstone wrote (in article <150220072338430009%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca>): [responding to my request for definitions for "markup" and "page description" languages] > HTML as a markup language describes parameters for a multitude of possible > interpreters rendering a page, based on what can be fairly vague > instructions, so that an instruction like 'font size="-2"' will display > different absolute results depending on the client doing the > interpretation (IE/Safari/Firefox/Omniweb/etc). > > Postscript, OTOH, is a specific description language based on a known and > consistent interpreter, where an instruction such as '90 rotate 0 -612 > translate' will do *exactly* the same thing no matter where it is > interpreted (HP/Agfa/Harlequin/etc), and display *exactly* the same result. Thanks! Maybe you ought to start writing for Wikipedia! :-) -- James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com
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From: TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:04:15 -0600
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