Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!AHWAHNEE.STANFORD.EDU!dcrocker From: dcrocker@AHWAHNEE.STANFORD.EDU (Dave Crocker) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: PostScript Versus ASCII Message-ID: <8910020153.AA23778@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 1 Oct 89 18:02:49 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 Postscript is the ointment. I perceive a fly: We may recall that people used to refer, rather simply, to having their software run on "Unix". These days, people are a little more careful to indicate the specific FLAVOR of Unix that it runs on. I use WordPerfect, at home, and am going through some wars to get it to print a postscript file on a non-directly attached and non-Apple postscript engine. No luck. Wordperfect apparently produces a file that is a) broken and b) tailored specifically to the Apple. Even if I have some details wrong, my point is that we need to have VERY precisely specified details about what Postscript is acceptable and, I believe, we will then find that much/most Postscript-generating software is marginally non-compliant. There can be no reasonable question about the benefit of being able to use mixed text/graphics for document production and it seems remarkable that there is still a barrier to doing it. I suspect that there needs to be a coordinated effort to get a sufficiently universal and consistent mechanism, particularly if you wish to avoid excessively favoring any single word-processing/publishing-package vendor. Dave