> From: "Jack Rodgers" <jrodgers@bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: Mac and Windows links for pre-press
>
> Regarding printing ps files from Mac or Windows, has anyone checked the two
> files line for line and command for command to see if a the two documents
> ARE the same? Simply assuming that, "Hey, it's a postscript file" isn't
> sufficient. It's quite possible that the cross platform applications are
> creating different ps files.
> I would be extremely surprised if an application produced the same PostScript
on Windows and on the Mac. Most of the PostScript is produced by the print
driver. The two operating systems have different print drivers, with different
problems. The only time the application programmer has to resort to writing
PostScript is when they want to exploit a feature of PostScript that the standard
print architecture for the operating system doesn't support (EPS graphics, for
example).

Having said that, I would expect the marks on the page to be pretty close to identical.

I hope this helps.

Richard Siddall.