[HN Gopher] Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain Ou...
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       Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain Out of Printing
       (1988)
        
       Author : takiwatanga
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2022-04-23 20:33 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (spectrum.ieee.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (spectrum.ieee.org)
        
       | vincent-manis wrote:
       | I'm glad Warnock and Geschke didn't already have the ideas of the
       | modern Adobe in their heads. If they had, the LaserWriter would
       | have required a monthly cloud subscription, and if the customer
       | cancelled, both the printer and everything they had already
       | printed would vanish.
       | 
       | I also think that Illustrator 88 was a great improvement on its
       | successors.
        
       | ivanviso wrote:
       | That fixed the formatting.
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       | Next is fixing the printers.
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       | And then, the users. Ugh.
        
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       | svat wrote:
       | (1988)
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       | > _This article was first published as "'PostScript' prints
       | anything: a case history." It appeared in the May 1988 issue of
       | IEEE Spectrum. [...] The diagrams and photographs appeared in the
       | original print version._
       | 
       | So the article is from 1988, except for the update at the bottom:
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       | > _Update April 2022: While most home and office printers rely on
       | other page description languages these days, PostScript remains
       | the choice of graphics artists and commercial printers for its
       | ability to accurately produce complex images. And the ubiquitous
       | Portable Document Format (PDF) is based on PostScript._
        
       | throw0101a wrote:
       | PPD files can be very handy:
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       | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_Printer_Description
       | 
       | Sort of like 'OS-neutral printer drivers'.
        
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