NeXT Step 3.0 and PostScript problems!!!!! (maybe I should get a Mac?)

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From: Gottfried Mayer-Kress
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:25

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Some time I got some advertising file about why NeXT is superior to Mac:
because NeXT is a PostScript based machine, and therefore you get on the 
printer "exactly" what you see on the screen, NOT!
I found this extremely frustrating when I tried to show off the new 
NextStep 3.0 with PostScript "Level 2" with some simple graphics:
I had a perfect alignment of some elements on the screen, when I printed
(even on the new, fancy color printer) I got a consistent offset of about 3mm,
a real *&%^&#$-pain in the neck. This happened both in Create and also in 
Appsoft Draw!! I really hope that I am just too dumb for PostScript and someone 
has a nice and simple solution to this problem...

BTW, the deadline for our project is Friday, 10:30a.m. ....
--
Gottfried Mayer-Kress
Center for Complex Systems Research, Department of Physics
3025 Beckman Institute, 405 N Mathews, Urbana, Il 61801
gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (NeXT-Mail)
gmk@goshawk.lanl.gov, gmk@santafe.edu 
(217)-244-5877 (voice/fax modem),x8371(fax), x1994 (msg)

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