Sujet : Re: The problem with not owning the software
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : alt.comp.os.windows-11 comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 30. Dec 2024, 08:05:27
Autres entêtes
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On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 04:55:20 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
PostScript was a big deal, back in the day when desktop/workstation
machines had more primitive graphics stacks. EPS was a way of embedding
such graphics in a form that they could be sent to a printer that
understood PostScript, from a machine which did not.
And then there is Ghostscript... One of our applications that prints
reports sniffs at the document to determine if it's PS, then checks the
configuration of the printer to see if it can handle PS. If not, it spawns
Ghostscript to massage it into something the printer can handle. Great
fun.