In a message dated: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:23:01 EST
Niall Kavanagh said:
>> I think it is fairly safe to say that hell will freeze over first.
>> Display PostScript seems to be widely regarded as a great example of
>> the wrong thing to do.
>
>What makes you say that? (honest question! not a troll!) Seems like it makes
>rather a lot of sense to me; what with the way display technology is taking
>off and all. The current setup of doing stuff on a pixel level will hold us
>back (unless we change the way the pixels are addressed, leaving legacy
>folks rather irritated).
Display Postscript I think was a great idea, the problem was the
implimentation. First of all, Adobe owns the rights to PS. That right there
means that the technology must be licensed.
The only company I know of that successfully did anything with DPS was Sun
(though I vaguely remember Apple doing something with it also). Sun used DPS
in their NeWS server technology. This also required proprietary printers from
Sun. It was a good idea, but something went drastically wrong in the
implimentation (though I don't know what, since I never used any of this stuff
:)
--
Seeya,
Paul
----
Doing something stupid always costs less (up front) than doing
something intelligent.
Bean counters are *always* wrong!
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
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