From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Example ConTeXt document: PS output
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:25:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8426970D-0ACC-45B2-9D40-26BAA804CD3D@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100711205355.GA4933@khaled-laptop>
Am 2010-07-11 um 22:53 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
> SUSE had (have?) a graphical menu extension to GRUB boot loader
> written
> in PostScript. Don't ask me why I remembered this now, but I always
> found it one of most weird uses of PostSscript I've ever seen.
NextStep's whole screen graphics was DisplayPostScript - in NS's
successor OSX it became PDF (Aqua is based on a PDF graphics model;
didn't research what's left of it today).
I read, PostScript was also used for industrial robotics, because it's
geometrical calculations were unique.
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-09 15:46 Michael Talbot-Wilson
2010-07-09 16:06 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-09 18:49 ` Vedran Miletić
2010-07-10 2:46 ` Michael Talbot-Wilson
2010-07-10 3:30 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-10 3:32 ` Michael Talbot-Wilson
2010-07-10 3:37 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-10 5:46 ` Michael Talbot-Wilson
2010-07-10 6:42 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-07-10 14:28 ` Martin Schröder
2010-07-10 22:07 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-07-10 12:34 ` Peter Münster
2010-07-10 21:42 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-07-10 22:21 ` Martin Schröder
2010-07-11 11:25 ` Vnpenguin
2010-07-11 16:43 ` Michael Talbot-Wilson
2010-07-11 17:28 ` Ivo Solnický
2010-07-11 17:39 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-11 20:37 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2010-07-11 20:53 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-07-11 21:25 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2010-07-12 8:58 ` Hans Hagen
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