POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Ghostscript : Re: Ghostscript Server Time
4 Sep 2024 21:20:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ghostscript  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 13 Nov 2009 04:44:39
Message: <4afd2a87$1@news.povray.org>
>> Obviously, very few devices *support* this stuff... (I would imagine 
>> you only care spot colours and trappings if you're doing 
>> industrial-grade printing.) But it's pretty crazy that it's in there, 
>> all the same.
> 
> Given that industrial-grade printing is where it originally came from, 
> it's not too surprising after all :-)

Well, you say that, but it seems hard to imagine that the ordinary 
everyday PostScript technology that we all use is the same stuff as they 
use in industrial-grade printing applications. You'd think they would 
use some highly-specialised top-secret proprietry system that costs 
several billion dollars or something...

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