Sounds like it was made to code printing rip servers since they were mostly Unix based, widely used alongside Mac computers and utilized postscript.
Mike "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: >On 8/15/11 3:39 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: >>>>> If I remember right, EPS was intended for 'nix only, and only in >>>>> MetaCard, and only for very early versions of both. I didn't know it >>>>> ever worked at all on Macs. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Why, exactly, was that possibility dropped? >>> >>> Don't know, but I think it stopped before RR got the engine. Probably >>> it was too hard to maintain cross-platform. >>> >> >> Well . . . there are "residues" in Mac Classic versions. > >I just did a quick scan of the (really old) MC docs. Apparently EPS was >an object type, just like a button or field. It had properties, and it >received system messages. There is also some indication that it only >worked briefly, since one entry mentions it is disfunctional in most MC >engines due to issues with display postscript. There is also a reference >to X Servers, which indicates it was intended only for unix. > >Back then that was the only platform that had postscript built in. That >was, what, 12 years ago? > >-- >Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > >_______________________________________________ >use-livecode mailing list >use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
