OT (sort of): opinions on color laser printers for OSX
Scott Stevenson
scott at maxify.com
Fri May 4 01:51:05 PDT 2007
On May 3, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Henry McGilton wrote:
> I suppose the question I should really ask is: what does PDF
> provide that PostScript does not?
Broader printer selection?
> If I start with PostScript, it seems that somewhere in the pipeline
> between the file system and the print engine, there has to be a
> PostScript interpreter of some sort
Oh, but there is:
"The Preview application (in Mac OS X v10.3 and later) automatically
converts PostScript files to PDF."
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Conceptual/
drawingwithquartz2d/dq_ps_convert/chapter_16_section_1.htm>
- Scott
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