Version 1.0 of Display Postscript from Adobe Systems is due next month, says Microbytes Daily, and that version will be the one included in the Next Inc machines to be distributed by Businessland Inc. The current version is 0.9. The new version will also appear on the new DECstations DEC buys OEM from MIPS Computer System Inc, and on IBM PS/2s running AIX, also the subject of a Businessland distribution deal. It is also a contender as the imaging model for OSF Motif, the Open Software Foundation’s Presentation Manager-like graphical user interface. Unlike conventional Postscript, which can take several minutes to assemble an image, Display Postscript takes less than a second, according to Adobe, and the new version will include optimised features, such as primitives for generating rectangles, and cacheing for frequently used objects such as icons. But talks with the Open Software Foundation are currently stalled over the issue of source code, which the Foundation insists upon. We can’t give them that, Adobe’s Ellen Nold, told Microbytes.
