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| Hi,
The company I am working for has a prepress department (which I used to
be a member of), and they developed a software to paginate and print
telephone books. The product includes a GUI to edit the paginated book
for last minute corrections. PostScript was the chosen language when we
started, about 18 years ago. Lately, since SVG picked up, we have also
started using SVG in our web applications, the GUI I mentioned being
one.
Recently I was asked to investigate whether we could replace PostScript
with SVG or PDF (from scratch), for printing. It is obvious that before
SVG1.2 and SVGPrint are final and stable, SVG1.1 is not an option. The
java libraries that I found on the web gave me an idea how to generate
PDF from scratch, and it looks as if native PostScript commands were
taken as a basis to make java API's (e.g. className.moveto(x, y)),
which does not take away the necessity of having PostScript knowledge.
I might be biased. However, I cannot convince myself that generating
PDF from scratch is preferable to generating PostScript and converting
it to PDF if needed. I cannot ignore the flexibility brought by the
Prologue+Script combination and the ease of modifying the Prologue
part.
I hope I gave enough details to explain the situation. Please, I would
appreciate if you would share your opinion with me.
Best regards,
Zeynep
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