DAN@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU (Dan Blumenfeld) (02/19/86)
According to a recent conversation that I had withn some people at Interleaf, a postscript driver will be available in the middle of 2Q86. No price has been set for the driver and (I assume) new font sets. University people might be interested in knowing that there is a new version of Interleaf called UPS (University Publishing Software), which has all the features of TPS except for scanning. The good part is that the cost is less than WPS... the catch is that UPS lags TPS by one release, so TPS customers get all the new goodies first. Dan Blumenfeld University of Pennsylvania
berlin@BUCSB.UUCP (David K. Fickes) (03/05/86)
Do you have any information concerning the Interleaf machines... What I am looking for is primarily "independant reviews" and complaints... I was over at Interleaf's office in Cambridge yesterday and was VERY impressed but I want to make sure I get as much information as I can BEFORE approaching the university to fund a program based on these machines... thanks, david ps. officially I/S Projects Coordinator - Division of Student Affairs
brolsma@BBN-SPCA.ARPA (Bruce Brolsma) (03/07/86)
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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 86 16:00:53 EST
From: Bruce Brolsma <brolsma@BBN-SPCA.ARPA>
To: "David K. Fickes" <ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!bu-cs!bucsb!berlin@ucbvax.berkeley.EDU>
cc: brolsma@BBN-SPCA.ARPA
Subject: Re: Postscript and Interleaf WPS
In a nutshell, I consider Interleaf's strengths to be:
a) the variety of hardware on which it can run
b) price
Its weaknesses include:
a) lack of high-resolution typesetting capability
(if 300dpi output is not sufficient for your
typesetting application)
b) weak element identifier system (compared, for
example, to the new ANSI Standard Generalized
Markup Language standard)
c) lack of control over intercharacter spacing
(kerning). This means that if some letter
combinations appear unattractive to you, you
will have no ability to tweak the spacing.
Our reader audience (scientific software) expects high-quality
high-resolution (> 1000 dpi) output and appearance that the
Interleaf could not meet. Consequently we rejected it in
favor of a more powerful (albeit more expensive) WYSIWYG system.
I consider it a fine system if your applications don't
require high-res, fine-tuned output.
Be aware, too, that the Sun port always gets the latest
software. Other ports follow along at later intervals...
Bruce Brolsma
Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
brolsma@bbn-spca
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When last I talked to folks from Interleaf they were able to drive a small number of "commercial" phototypesetters - amoung them the 762 dpi APS-5. When PostScript support becomes available you will be able to use Linotype's 300 series of PostScript machines which are capable of better than 1000 dpi (in some incarnations). Doug Urner