At 11:33 AM 11/16/95 -0800, Marianne Mueller wrote:

I think it would be great if either of these two things were to magically happen:

1) people would stop putting postscript docs on web pages because it's the wrong technology for WWW - it wastes bandwidth - it's hard to view & hence often ugly - everyone just prints it out anyway and then complains because there is no one "standard" implementation of postscript printing worldwide and there are dozens of minor problems

2) someone could implement a secure postscript previewer (whatever that means!) Yep. If you've got something that limits itself to making marks on virtual paper and modifying memory in well-defined areas,

Postscript is often a better model for applications like WWW - certainly more flexible than GIFs, and often smaller, for pictures that are composed of drawings or text-like objects rather than scanned photographs. You don't have to worry about resolution differences, jaggies, and ugliness - just compatibility and security and memory consumption :-). It's somewhat the difference between X and NeWS. I seldom print Postscript documents out; I view them with Ghostscript, though lack of a non-HP printer affects this... Viewing java docs on line, with the equations written as GIFs (without even an alternate text eqn or fortran form) is much tougher. that's probably good enough. I'm hoping Java can do much the same job. ...

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