begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:55:33PM -0700: > Richard Reynolds wrote: [snip] > >going to help. postscript isnt without a ton of faults, and unless I am > >missing something isnt postscript copywriten to adobe??? whats stoping > >them from pulling a compuserve when they wanted to collect royalaties out > >of every .gif user. > > It is licensed with every printer that supports it. Ghostscript etc are > free unencumbered implementations of postscript. So now, they can't pull > a compuserv.
Um... the postscript patent has expired. At least postscript level 1 can be implemented without encumbrances. Level 2 should be expiring soon. You'd think that the expensive of adding a postscript interpreter to a printer would be minimal in this day and age. [snip] -- The problem with postscript is that a document is actually a program. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
