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

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, September 4, 2001 at 14:51:54 (-0500), Reagen B. Ward wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] better word-processing previewing....
>
> Ghostscript is far from fast, and I've had problems with some of its
> interpretation.

indeed GS can be pretty crappy -- it's good enough for previewing, but
and for previewing most PDFs these days, but that's about it.

> Yup, Apple did it from scratch, but it was easy.  They already had nice PDF
> objects to build upon, and there's no benefit to going with DGS over DPDF.
> Plus, PDF is recognizeable to the masses, PS is not.  When you need to 
> market your product, it's good to use things the market recognizes.

But Apple doesn't do that kind of marketing?  I mean would you ever even
imagine Apple to come close to mentioning PDF or PS in one of their ads?
"I Don't Think So!!!(tm)"  :-)

No, PDF was chosen simply because Adobe's greed was too high to choose PS.

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