laser-lovers@uw-beaver (07/03/85)
From: mirror!rs@cca-unix (Rich Salz) Before I left Xyvision three months ago, they were planning on using interpress because they intended to drive the 9700 as an output device. It was going to be handled the same way any other output device is: an output driver program reads the Xyvision Standard Format database, and translates their "generic" data manipulation commands (e.g., MovHoriz, DrawRule:x:y, etc.) into the specific commands required by the typesetter. There was some hassle because interpress isn't exactly the same model as most CRT typesetters, but because XSF was a structured, page-oriented data format, it didn't seem too unreasonable.