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