Re: [9fans] Re: psutils et al

[nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es]

:  I'm sad to see these consequences of bad design decisions attempting
:  to invade Plan 9. (I hope and believe the Plan 9 devotees won't let it
:  happen.) PostScript is too low a level to be carrying out *everyday*
:  page transformations; it's just too flexible a language. I think
:  that such page transformations should be done at a higher level of
:  document description. On Unix and Plan 9, I'd say that was probably
:  at the ditroff output level. ditnup, ditselect, dittodit etc, anyone?
:  In one way, Microsoft had the right idea (if not the right implementation)
:  with their device-independent DGI page description interface, though
:  the recent GDI Plus has made this more complex.

The problem is when you got some ps from powerpoint and you don't
have to use it. Although I try hard not to fall into it, this time
I had to do it. So, although it may not be the right way, I think it's
still useful to be able to do such kind of things to the postscript.