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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