POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Ghostscript : Re: Ghostscript Server Time
4 Sep 2024 21:22:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ghostscript  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 13 Nov 2009 11:43:44
Message: <4afd8cc0$1@news.povray.org>
>> 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. 
> 
> No. That was rather the whole point of inventing Postscript: to make the 
> authors do the work of generating the camera-ready copy, and let the 
> printers make even more money by only doing the fully-automated stuff 
> but still charging the same amount of money.

Ah, I see... ;-)

(In fairness, rasterising PostScript is a pretty heavy-metal task.)

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