19 May
2005
19 May
'05
7:58 p.m.
Barring that, PostScript would even be a decent
alternative to PDF -
it's fairly readable Forth, and any decent printer can accept it to
produce a new hardcopy.
Based on my rather limited understanding, PDF more or less *is*
PostScript - they're similar at a fairly high level - both stack
languages based on approximately the same imaging model....
(Yes, I'm saying if a printer can't be made to
accept postscript -
either standard or via an option ROM, it isn't "decent".)
Feh. I'd much rather have something like a SPARCprinter that just
takes page bitmaps from the host. It's easy to generate bitmaps with
something like GhostScript, but convincing a PostScript printer to just
print a page bitmap is..a struggle.
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