schuster@cup.portal.com (Michael Alan Schuster) (10/11/90)
With Adobe finally licensing (and producing) direct-market interpreters for the HP printers, why don;t they do in the host-based clones (like Freedom of Press, UltraScript, Goscript, etc. etc) by producing one of their own. Of course there would be performance trade-offs, but think of the market they're losing now by restricting themselves to HP brand printers! Is anyone from Adobe listening?
jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) (10/11/90)
In article <34733@cup.portal.com> schuster@cup.portal.com (Michael Alan Schuster) writes: > > With Adobe finally licensing (and producing) direct-market interpreters > for the HP printers, why don;t they do in the host-based clones (like > Freedom of Press, UltraScript, Goscript, etc. etc) by producing one of > their own. Apparently they do; the PS previewer that comes with DecStation 3100s (dxpsview) contains an Adobe-licensed PS interpreter. Actually that's not true, it's the DecStation's X server which has Adobe PS built in, but dxpsview's startup banner says it's Adobe licensed. It's very fast, too. One annoying (though probably intentional) thing abount this arrangement is that I can't rlogin to one of our decstations and run dxpsview with the display happening on the Sun on my desk, because the PS is built in to the X server, I have to actually go and sit in front of the thing. Bummer. -- Jamie
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (10/12/90)
In article <34733@cup.portal.com> schuster@cup.portal.com (Michael Alan Schuster) writes: >With Adobe finally licensing (and producing) direct-market interpreters >for the HP printers, why don;t they do in the host-based clones (like >Freedom of Press, UltraScript, Goscript, etc. etc) by producing one of >their own... One reason why they might legitimately hesitate to do this is the copying problem. There are great practical advantages to selling interpreters that are imbedded in a piece of hardware, because it makes them much more difficult to pirate. -- "...the i860 is a wonderful source | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology of thesis topics." --Preston Briggs | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry