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 ------