OT (sort of): opinions on color laser printers for OSX

[Ashley Aitken]

Hi Henry (et al.),

On 05/05/2007, at 10:30 AM, Henry McGilton wrote:

> Much of the PostScript I have created *is* hand crafted.    See
> 'PostScript By Example' for 750+ hand crafted pictures
> to illustrate the effects obtained from specific PostScript code.
> But, 99 percent of my hand crafted PostScript is straightforward
> very simple code with no explorations into the dark corners of
> the PostScript dungeons and minimal use of programming aspects.

But any use of programming aspects would be possible cause for a  
problem.

> Without wishing to flog this particular horse any more, pretty
> much all of that hand crafted PostScript displayed fine with
> YAP and Preview on NextStep, displayed fine with GhostView/GhostScript
> on a (shudder) PC, and displays fine on MacGhostView/GhostScript
> on our current wonderful OS X.

All of those apps, I would assume, contain a Postscript engine  
(virtual machine).

> Today's Preview seems to choke on some fairly simple PostScript
> stuff, and I will try to understand why.    As time goes by, the
> issue starts to fade (so to speak) anyway.

Because Preview doesn't have a Postscript engine?

That said, I would assume there are probably also other parts of  
Postscript that Preview probably can't handle (besides the  
programming aspects).  Probably some of the esoteric bits that are  
not used very much.

PDF is not the same as Postscript (as we all know) and the fact that  
some Postscript documents can be converted into PDF is just a bonus,  
not something we should count on, or expect.

Cheers,
Ashley.