Re: PostScript Conspiracy

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From: Leslie Mikesell
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 1988 03:19

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In article <567@pcrat.UUCP> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>>>   (Remember, I'm a pic/troff user)
>>> Yeah, there are some nice features to PostScript.  But is it really
>>> worth the extra delay and cost?
>
>I can print anything that can be digitized or converted to 300 dpi
>resolution (the resolution of canon engines).
>

If you want to print bitmaps, I don't see how you can expect PostScript
to make any difference over any other printer language. A dot is a dot
no matter how you say it.

>No problem there.  I don't have a Mac, but I merge PC Paintbrush drawings
>all the time. ".BM drawing.pcx pcx 300 L" sticks 300DPI drawing.pcx in my
>document at the left margin, with text flowing around to the right.

Sounds like bitmaps to me...

Les Mikesell

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From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
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Subject: Re: PostScript Conspiracy
Message-ID: <6475@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 3 Sep 88 03:19:25 GMT
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