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At 12:08 1998-12-15 -0600, Randolph J. Herber wrote:
>|They don't have to be. It is up to the OS to provide printer support.
>|You print to them from Acrobat Reader. They need not be PS devices.
>|In Windows NT for example, I could print to any one of over 3,500
>|different model printers - and Acrobat has very little to do with it.
> NO, it is not the job of the programming support system to
> provide printer support. If a printer requires unusual
> programming support, then it is the job of the printer
> vendor to provide the appropriate applications level
> programs and commands to prepare the data streams the
> printer needs from such ``standard'' forms as Adobe
> PostScript language or PDF.
Yes, that is what I mean. You can't sell a printer to a significant number
of people *unless* it has this kind of support for major operating systems.
The application should *not* have to worry about this. There should
not be a need for a DVILJ, DVIPS, DVIXYZ DVIEpson, DVIFax driver.
There should be *ne* driver. Systems that have M applications and N
resources, can then be dealt with using N + M software modules
rather than N * M.
But maybe we can move this discussion to alt.software.advocacy.
Regards, Berthold.
Y&Y, Inc. mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.YandY.com
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