oster@lapis.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (04/07/87)
Apple's laser prep file does load a chunk of 68000 object code into the laser printer to do bitmap smoothing, and it does use a postscript operator to do it \eexec (as I recall.) However, all the existing PostScript interpeters use 68000s (or 68020s) and code licensed from Adobe. (even the typesetters: the existing postscript compatible typesetters use a front end postscript processor called a RIP.) So, the Apple bit smoothing code works in them all. My wife typeset a children's book on a LinoTronic 100 using the standard LaserWriter drivers and including some macpaint pictures pasted into a MacDraw file. What with the smoothing, and the LinoTronics 1200 bpi resolution, the pictures looked great. Hint: paste a bitmap picture into macdraw, group it (to get around the 3k limit on bitmap pieces) then shrink it by a factor of 4, and you've got laser dots resolution bit map editing without having to buy superpaint and without superpaint's one page size limit. --- David Phillip Oster -- "We live in a Global Village." Arpa: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu -- Uucp: ucbvax!ucblapis!oster -- "You are Number Six."