Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
"a)" may be the safer way but is not always necessary. Your example of
Postscript interpreter doesn't fit nearly as well because you're
talking about (as far as I know) is an undcoumented proprietary file
format,
Not that it matters a whole lot to this discussion, but I believe
PostScript
is actually rather well documented:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201379228/
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/ps/index_specs.html
This is getting a little off topic but I think the previous message
talked about
both PostScript and PDF. PDF is fairly proprietary as far as I know.
PostScript
however, could almost be described as an Open Standard.
Which by the way is something the everyone failed to mention. In lieu of
having the source available, historically companies and organizations have
published Open Standards to attempt ensure compatibility among
implementations.
---joe
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