Re: press release

From: Juliusz Chroboczek (jec@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 10:49:39 EDT


MB> Output goes to PDF, PostScript, line printers, PCL as well as
MB> HTML/XML. It would sure be nice if all those technologies handled
MB> context sensitive glyph placement...but this is only the year
MB> 2000.

PostScript and to a certain extent PDF do not manipulate characters;
all they ever see is glyphs. The application generating PS or PDF is
supposed to do the glyph selection and placement.

                                        J.



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