X-Message-Number: 2902
From:  (Thomas Donaldson)
Subject: CRYONICS: Re: Image Transmission
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 13:04:15 -0700 (PDT)


Hi again!

Basically L. Zubkoff has put in another vote for Postscript. That's fine. I 
will say that as I understand the scene, it's simply not true that "most
printers support Postscript". Even Apple has recently made and sold laser
printers that did not use Postscript; HP has been famous for this for a long 
time (they have their own document description language, which is supposed
to be harder to use). This does not include many printers which are not
laser printers, such as inkjet printers or dot matrix printers.

I'm not trying to be difficult here. I just would like a method which really
would be as widely usable as cheaply as possible. And I also believe that
(PARTICULARLY with graphics) users will want to save their downloads and 
print them out --- which raises other software problems if you are only able
to view a Postscript file on your screen.

Incidentally, as I said in my last message, I'd be perfectly happy with 
Postscript (if it's Level 1), since I actually own a laserwriter than takes
Postscript. But what about those who do not?

			Long long life,

				Thomas
				

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