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In article <141@internal.Apple.COM> casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres) writes:
>In article <15691@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
>
>>...  is Aldus right? Is it
>>inherently impossible to have a WYSIWYG program on the Mac
>>as the Next reportedly has?
>
> deleted; points out 72dpi <> 300dpi


>Another kind of error can come up when you mix text elements with graphics
>and want everything to fit together in an exact way.  Here the problem is
>that the text on the screen is from a bitmap font at a certain size, while
>the printed text is either from a bitmap font of a different size, or from
>an outline (PostScript) font that the screen font was trying to approximate.
>All the fonts are supposed to scale exactly but they often don't really.  As
>a result the positions of characters in the printed copy can be off from what
>you saw on the screen.  I imagine that this problem is much easier on the
>NeXT system, since it uses PostScript at both ends of the process.
>

MacII AU/X users can use NeWS. Display postscript predates Mr. Jobs
and his merrie band. NeWS is a windowing system created by my
employer, but licensed to others. 

NeWS is a windowing system, which employes postscript on the screen.
Now if Mr. Jobs will license his objective C libraries we can see
whose box is best :>



Keith H. Bierman
It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus