On 12-Jul-99, Rafe B. wrote something like: >At 11:44 PM 7/11/99 +0500, Steve Greenfield wrote: >>I guess I have a RIP on my Amiga, I always thought that it was a RIP >>when you are sending something to the printer. But I have a couple >>of printer driver programs (no manufacturer writes them for the Amiga >>anymore) that drive a lot of printers, and one of them will also print >>Postscript. Does that make it a RIP? >Interesting comment. (Or is it a question?) A question. Doesn't RIP stand for something like Rasterize Image Processing or something like that? I though someone said here what it stands for. >I guess I assumed that a RIP was a PostScript rasterizer. >Is that not the general meaning? - >If we accept that a RIP is anything that turns >vectors into pixels on a printer, then yes, we all >need a RIP at some time or another, if we're going >to be printing graphic objects. That would make any word processor and DTP and vector graphics program a RIP, or they contain a RIP. Again, I thought it was the name of the process of converting the image in whatever format to the actual printer language/data. IE, convert a page of vector images and RGB 8bit per channel at whatever DPI to on/off CMY and K channels at 720dpi (or whatever res you are printing at). Can someone here tell us? Someone who knows and isn't guessing? I'm perfectly capable of guessing for myself... >As to Amigas, well, yes, almost all of us (over a >certain age) have one or more broken-hearted former- >Amiga-owners as acquaintances. One in every crowd! >It all harks back to the VHS-Beta battles. -snip "get a horse"- Yes, yes, whatever. I'm not trying to convince anyone to use an Amiga, please don't try and "convert" me. I -have- a W95 system, I -have- a Mac Emulator (that runs faster than any nonPPC Mac, and faster than older PPC Macs...) I have Photoshop, Pagemaker, Coreldraw, etc. If having all that won't "convert" me, you certainly aren't. Besides, I have a table saw, a bandsaw, a wood handsaw, a hacksaw, a jigsaw, a sawzall, etc. I use what I feel works best for the job and no-one tries to "convert" me to a specific brand, outside of the manufacturers. What a RIP. ;') Back to the question of the RIP. We're way off topic. -- Steve Greenfield // Digital photo scanning, retouching, Polymorph Digital Photography // and repair. Tshirts, cups, 8x10s. 253/383-9140 voice // We use the best little computer in polymorph@polyphoto.com // the world, the Amiga! http://www.polyphoto.com/ Support the anti Junk Email amendment. Details at www.cauce.org - Please: Stay on topic. Trim quoted messages. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.