[geeks] better word-processing previewing....

Joshua D Boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Sep 3 01:07:27 CDT 2001


On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 02:55:50PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Supposedly the Adobe engineers present at the first unveiling were
> literally tripping over themselves when they found out and were able to
> see how fast and clean the result was.  Their bosses had screwed up big
> time by refusing to lower the PS licensing price so that Apple could
> afford to practically give away the OS.  The result is of course that
> Apple did their own PDF engine from the published specs and Adobe
> doesn't get a dime from it.

Anyone know why Apple didn't stick with DisplayPostscript, or just simply
switch to display Ghostscript?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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