12 Dec
2005
12 Dec
'05
6:06 p.m.
woodelf wrote:
That's a bit elitist. Some of us weren't that lucky.
He wasn't
talking about document creation, he was talking about
printing, for which he is right on the money. If you used Word
Perfect 5 for DOS, you were limited to the fonts your printer
supported. If you used Geoworks, or Ghostscript (I used a retail
package called "GOSCRIPT"), or Win 3.1, you could use any font you
want and the print subsystem would just rasterize it as graphics.
But then we have TEX created under a unix system for real work. GUI's are not the way to print out stuff.
GUI is irrelevant. When I was limited to a single font and 80-char/66-line
output -- on a device capable of 200 DPI output -- I tore my hair out. It's
not my fault the only decent low-cost print systems were attached to a GUI.
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