Better indexing on bitsavers

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Thu May 19 21:58:17 CDT 2005


> Barring that, PostScript would even be a decent alternative to PDF -
> it's fairly readable Forth, and any decent printer can accept it to
> produce a new hardcopy.

Based on my rather limited understanding, PDF more or less *is*
PostScript - they're similar at a fairly high level - both stack
languages based on approximately the same imaging model....

> (Yes, I'm saying if a printer can't be made to accept postscript -
> either standard or via an option ROM, it isn't "decent".)

Feh.  I'd much rather have something like a SPARCprinter that just
takes page bitmaps from the host.  It's easy to generate bitmaps with
something like GhostScript, but convincing a PostScript printer to just
print a page bitmap is..a struggle.

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