Re: Print driver in MacOS X
Re: Print driver in MacOS X
- Subject: Re: Print driver in MacOS X
- From: Xavier Niebla <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:48:37 -0500
On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 06:34 PM, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:20:36 -0700
From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
At 11:15 AM -0500 7/28/03, Xavier Niebla wrote:
If this is correct, any printer in MacOS X is PostScript by nature,
no Postscript is only created when printing to a Postscript
device. That would be taking a step backward indeed!
Actually, to print Postscript to a non-Postscript printer requires a
RIP (such as Ghostscript). If you install Ghostscript, then yes, any
printer can look like a Postscript printer. Just like any printer can
look like a PDF printer.
So, what is the purpose of using a 3th party RIP? I think that a
RIP is unnecessary in MacOS X if the system has a built in RIP
based on PDF which is the successor of PostScript. Can I trust
the interpretation of the PostScript done by Quartz while
printing from applications like InDesign or Freehand?
The system does not go that far - nor do we want it too.
PDF isn't backward-compatible with Postscript; Postscript files aren't
PDF.
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Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
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"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
Robert,
I didn't said that PostScript is PDF which of-course is not, but for
sure, PDF is based on PostScript. So if Quartz converts everything to
PDF even for printing, I guess that the interpretation is very similar
if not identical to what a PostScript RIP would do.
Apart of that; Is true that Ghostscript is built in Panther or at-least
it has some kind of RIP built in?
Thanks again for your time.
Xavier Niebla O'Gorman
Color Division Director
CT & Diseqo S.A. de C.V.
Mexico
email@hidden
www.ctyd.com.mx
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