shull@WHARTON-10.ARPA.UUCP (07/11/86)
I am looking for documentation that describes Adobe Systems' PostScript
and IBM's DIA/DCA standards from the professional software developer's
perspective. I would like to know specific titles, authors, publishers,
prices, and addresses to which I (or a company) can send a purchase order.
Some questions:
1. While the DIA/DCA standard is just a file format, does software
using it need to handle error conditions, not so much upon
writing a file, as upon reading one?
2. If so, does the DIA/DCA standard indicate how these conditions
are dealt with?
3. If I want to write a driver for an Apple LaserWriter, do I need
any documents from Apple? If so, what, and where can I get one?
4. Is a PostScript printer a PostScript printer a PostScript printer?
Or, in other words, will a driver for an Apple LaserWriter drive
a QMS printer, a DataProducts printer and a Allied Lynotype
typesetter without modification, or are the modifications merely
minimized?
I will summarize any responses to Laser-Lovers after a couple of weeks.
Thanks in advance!
-Chris
Christopher E. Shull
Decision Sciences Department
The Wharton School Shull@Wharton-10.ARPA
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366 215/898-5930
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