MacOSX-admin Digest, Vol 39, Issue 26

[Alex Satrapa]

On 03/04/2007, at 14:40 , Ashley Aitken wrote:

> Why would this be any different from the Adobe Postscript  
> implementation (apart from the fact that Adobe probably have a  
> better implementation of the Postscript specification)?

You've answered your own question.

Would you buy your steak knives from someone who specialises in  
giving away free knives with purchases of other items, or from a  
company that specialises in high quality cutlery?

If you're in the "spend $10 every year replacing knives" crowd, the  
PostScript emulation is fine for you - if you encounter problems  
you'll just modify your document to work on the printer that you've  
chosen (or just cope with not printing the document at all).

If you're in the "spend $100 once for knives that last 50 years"  
crowd, real Adobe PostScript is for you. You're the kind of person  
who doesn't want to spend an hour fixing a document to work on your  
printer (or calling the client to reject the job), when you could be  
using that time to print out other paying jobs.

Alex