Re: pdf editor

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Subject: Re: pdf editor
From: Leonard Stiles <ljs@uk2.net>
Date: 30 Jul 2001 00:34:20 +0200
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Carl Fink <carlf@nitpicking.com> writes:

> Not?  Debian uses GhostScript, a reverse-engineered clone of
> PostScript that involves zero payment to Adobe.

Reverse engineered?  Postscript is an open language, documented in a
series of books published by Addison-Wesley.  Buy the Red Book (see
<URL:http://www.awlonline.com/product/0,2627,0201379228,00.html>) or
read about it online at
<URL:http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/resources.html> (in PDF,
ironically).  Also, I think "implementation" is a better word than
"clone" in this context.

-- 

Leonard Stiles <ljs@uk2.net>

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- Re: pdf editor
  - From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
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  - From: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>
- Re: pdf editor
  - From: Carl Fink <carlf@nitpicking.com>

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