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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).
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Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
Research Engineer, Expway http://expway.fr/
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