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Article #5299Re: postscript routines for plotting
From: Marc Majka
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1988 22:41
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1988 22:41
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In article <31190@bbn.COM> jzavgren@bbn.com (John Zavgren) writes: >I beleive [sic] the way to go is PostScript. After all, all our printing is >done on PostScript printers. So, we might as well eliminate as many >intermediate steps as possible. [...] PostScript is an adequate page description language. It is a poor graphical description language. Sure, all your printers understand PostScript, but printers are hardly the only kind of graphic output devices. Producing good graphics in PostScript is, frankly, a pain in the butt. As the fledgling "industry" of desktop publishing grows up, it will begin to discover that there are more exciting graphical concepts than those offered by PostScript. Expect either a new page description language to replace PostScript, or big changes in the graphics it offers. Writing PostScript-based graphics utilities will get you two things: soon-outdated software, and lousy graphics. --- Marc Majka
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!grads.cs.ubc.ca!majka From: majka@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.graphics Subject: Re: postscript routines for plotting Message-ID: <4357@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 21 Oct 88 22:41:23 GMT References: <31190@bbn.COM> Sender: nobody@ubc-cs.UUCP Reply-To: majka@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Marc Majka) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 16