mcgregor@zin.DEC.COM.UUCP (02/17/87)
In response to a questions from Don Hopkins and Bill Wohler and to clear up some misconceptions, here's the text of Adobe's press release: January 15, 1987 "Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced plans to develop a version of PostScript (r) for displays which will be suitable as a graphics extension to windowing systems. PostScript, a page description language developed by Adobe, is a leading standard for printing on high-quality laser printers and typesetters. Adobe's new package will give programmers both a PostScript language interface and a C-language interface to the complete range of PostScript's powerful graphics and font capabilities. It will be a full implementation of the language and will be completely compatible with the printer version. Applications will be able to use a windowing system to manipulate windows and use PostScript to create their images within a window in a fully device-independent manner. This will make it possible to present on the screen the same text and graphics that can now be printed by PostScript laser printers and typesetters. The X Window System, developed at MIT and supported by a large number of worklstation vendors, is one of the windowing systems for which a PostScript extension will be available. Adobe expects to have the package completed by the fourth quarter of this year for licensing on an OEM basis to workstation manufacturers." Scott. -------------------- Please note that this mail message is likely to be incomplete. The sender aborted the transmission. rhea::MAILER-DAEMON --------------------