mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) (09/16/87)
I just saw a small news blurb claiming that NeXT and Adobe have signed an agreement to jointly develop a screen description language called Display PostScript, which would be completely compatible with the current PostScript page description language. This sounds an awful lot like NeWS. Is there any relationship between these two efforts, or are Adobe and NeXT going to reinvent the wheel?
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (09/19/87)
In article <8818@diamond.BBN.COM> mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) writes: >I just saw a small news blurb claiming that NeXT and Adobe have signed >an agreement to jointly develop a screen description language called >Display PostScript, which would be completely compatible with the current >PostScript page description language. > >This sounds an awful lot like NeWS. Is there any relationship between >these two efforts, or are Adobe and NeXT going to reinvent the wheel? Pardon me, re-inventing the wheel ? Isn't this what Sun did when they reverse engineered PostScript to produce news ? (Which was probably a good thing considering what Adobe wants for a license these days. It seems to have tripled since IBM and Microsoft endorsed it). I saw that blurb about his Stevieness and Adobe, and apart from saying "display postscript" it was remarkably lacking in technical info. It seemed to me to be a sort of "Were still here guys" sort of announcement. I mean, how hard can it be doing display postscript if you already have the source to printer postscript ? If you are going to render into a printer bitmap, how different can rendering into a bitmap for a display device be ? -- Richard J. Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard "It's too dark to put the keys in my ignition..."