[WinMac] Re: Macs and Pcs

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:04:47 -0500

> False: PostScript is, and always has been since its inception in ~1982,
>platform independent. Just download the latest PostScript drivers from:
> <http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/pdrvmac.htm> or
> <http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/pdrvwin.htm> for
>Mac and NT, respectively;

Sorry, but this is not true. Talk to anyone who has had production
experiemce with both platforms. And witness NT's ALARMINGLY recent
acquisition (by way of Adobe writing it) of a postscript level 2 driver
where there was none before.

Some cross-platform pre-press bureaus will refuse to accept Corel PC
files. Not because they don't know Corel but because of all the problems
outputting postscript from it (in all fairness, a lot fo these problems
have been fixed in the latest version).

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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