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David Megginson wrote: > Robin Berjon writes: > > I'd be interested in knowing what PS can do that SVG can't and that > > you'd have liked to see in SVG while working on those tasks. > > Postscript is a complete programming language, though most people tend > to think of it as a file format. The downside is that the only way to > see what a Postscript image looks like is to execute all of the code > in the file. Postscript is more similar to LaTeX in that regard than > to (say) DocBook or HTML. Yes, I know that but I was thinking more of graphical capacities and the such. SVG does not endeavour to be a complete programming language, something which I often hear perceived as an advantage (eg it won't send your printer into an infinite loop). -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...> Research Engineer, Expway http://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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