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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: 30 Dec 2024 07:05:27 GMT
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On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 04:55:20 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> PostScript was a big deal, back in the day when desktop/workstation
> machines had more primitive graphics stacks. EPS was a way of embedding
> such graphics in a form that they could be sent to a printer that
> understood PostScript, from a machine which did not.

And then there is Ghostscript...  One of our applications that prints 
reports sniffs at the document to determine if it's PS, then checks the 
configuration of the printer to see if it can handle PS. If not, it spawns 
Ghostscript to massage it into something the printer can handle. Great 
fun.