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- From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
- Subject: Re: EPSF or MacIntosh Pict -> fig Converter
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.001739.15289@stortek.com>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:17:39 GMT
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- Peter Harris (pharris@ucscm.ucsc.edu) wrote:
- : Well, since EPSF is (supposed to be) just a
- : PostScript file with an accompanying PICT for
- : viewing, [ ... ]
-
- ***** Culture Gap Alert! *****
- While the above statement is Gospel to a Macophile (quite literally -- it's
- straight out of the "Macintosh Bible" -- I can't cite chapter and verse
- offhand), it's regarded as quaint and parochial in the Terra Incognita
- outside the Mac Universe. See the Adobe PostScript Language Reference
- Manual (Red Book) (either edition) for the more widely accepted definition.
-