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Coders at Work: Reflections on the craft of programmingOn the other hand, it doesnБЂ™t impose any a priori constraint on how many different inks or how many different plates can go into the production of a given image. Seibel: So if you have a printer that can use gold ink, you just add a plane. Deutsch: Right. This certainly is not common in consumer-grade printers or even typically in office printers. But in offset printing it is relatively common to have special layers. So that was one area of insufficient generalization. So thatБЂ™s an example where even with a great deal of thought and skill I missed the boat. It doesnБЂ™t illustrate my point well; in a sense it undermines my point because, in this case, even careful foresight resulted in insufficient generalization. And I can tell you exactly where that insufficient foresight came fromБЂ”it came from the fact that Ghostscript was basically done by one very smart guy who had no acquaintance with the printing industry. Seibel: Meaning you. Deutsch: Right. Ghostscript started out as strictly a screen previewer for previewing PostScript files because there wasnБЂ™t one and PDF didnБЂ™t exist yet ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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