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Re: Postscript level 1 and DSC

From Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: Postscript level 1 and DSC
Date 2016-08-04 09:43 -0600
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vincent.torri@gmail.com wrote:

> If it is inside the prostscript, then I don't understand the reason to have such minimal conformance.

Adobe agreed with you, and dropped minimal
conformance in later levels of DSC.

> Indeed one can have:
> 
> 1) both minimal and full conformance (your exemple above with the version comment)
> 2) just minimal and not full conformance (bad Bounding Box values for example)
> 3) full conformance and not minimal (no EndProlog for example and just a new line or a comment)

Not at DSC Level 1.  If a PostScript program
fully conforms to Level 1 then it also
minimally conforms.  Above DSC Level 1, there
is no such thing as minimally conforming.

> 4) none of them (easy to have...)
> 
> As we can have all the possibilities, i can not see how such minimal conformance is interesting, except if my library, via an API, sets that one want minimal conforming. In that case, that would eliminate points 3) and 4).

Well, you are the one who asked about it :-)

-- 
Regards,
Martin Leese
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Postscript level 1 and DSC vincent.torri@gmail.com - 2016-07-30 08:54 -0700
  Re: Postscript level 1 and DSC Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2016-07-30 10:31 -0600
    Re: Postscript level 1 and DSC vincent.torri@gmail.com - 2016-07-30 10:00 -0700
  Re: Postscript level 1 and DSC luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-07-30 16:06 -0700
    Re: Postscript level 1 and DSC luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-07-31 22:53 -0700
  Re: Postscript level 1 and DSC rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) - 2016-08-01 19:56 +0000
    Re: Postscript level 1 and DSC luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-01 13:34 -0700
  Re: Postscript level 1 and DSC Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2016-08-03 10:43 -0600
    Re: Postscript level 1 and DSC vincent.torri@gmail.com - 2016-08-04 03:30 -0700
      Re: Postscript level 1 and DSC Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2016-08-04 09:43 -0600
        Re: Postscript level 1 and DSC vincent.torri@gmail.com - 2016-08-04 10:17 -0700

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