Oh wait, you said that. :-)

Bob S


On Oct 21, 2015, at 08:02 , Bob Sneidar 
<bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com<mailto:bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com>> wrote:

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Adobe products also used the 
previews to make rendering large documents more efficient. You could choose to 
render each time or use the preview, kind of like a cache. That was back in the 
day when the horsepower for rendering was much less than it is today. I'm not 
sure how they go about it now.

The real problem with Postscript is and always has been, licensing. It's 
expensive. I doubt you could convince Adobe to allow you to include a 
postscript rendering engine in LC for free.

Bob S


On Oct 21, 2015, at 07:51 , Mark Waddingham 
<m...@livecode.com<mailto:m...@livecode.com>> wrote:

The 'preview' thumbnails in EPS was more (I believe) so that they could be 
dropped into applications such as DTP programs and you could see what your EPS 
file would look like without the DTP program itself having to have a full 
PostScript interpreter (which have always been quite large and expensive to 
license).


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