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Article #1570Re: 900 dpi DPS limit
From: Tero Nieminen
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 15:44
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 15:44
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In article <pmarcos-250992080915@clive.mv.us.adobe.com>, pmarcos@adobe.com (Paul Marcos) writes:
> To address the question of the original post, the point is that you can't
> rasterize anything to the screen at > 92 dpi so you're safe. Remember any
> PostScript code is *capable* of generating images at any arbitrary
> resolution. The problem would be if you image something to an off screen
> buffer and then send the bitmap, not the code, to a photo-typsetter that's
> capable of > 900 dpi. You would probably have the world's cheapest
> Linotronic, not to mention putting Linotype/Hell out of business!
Unfortunately, this seems to put and end to the possibility of having a
decently priced PS-film recorder attached to a NeXT. Well, it could be
about the same resolution (in dots) as the screen, but if they just let
us use the laser printer effective bitmap size.
That's probably exactly the point to that licence limitation.. :(
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Tero Nieminen Tampere University of Technology
ttn@cs.tut.fi Tampere, Finland, Europe
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!tcsi.com!iat.holonet.net!news!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!news.funet.fi!tut!ttn From: ttn@cs.tut.fi (Tero Nieminen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 900 dpi DPS limit Message-ID: <TTN.92Sep27174422@mustarastas.cs.tut.fi> Date: 27 Sep 92 15:44:22 GMT References: <2926@news.cerf.net> <1992Sep25.125634.7557@ni.umd.edu> <pmarcos-250992080915@clive.mv.us.adobe.com> Sender: usenet@funet.fi (#Kotilo NEWS system ) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: pmarcos@adobe.com's message of 25 Sep 92 15: 20:17 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: mustarastas.cs.tut.fi