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Old October 25th, 2007 -   #62 (permalink)
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Default Re: Process screen printing - Photos

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Originally Posted by Fluid
Fred, PS was short hand for Photoshop not Postscript
In this context, it is indistinguishable. Photoshop and illustrator are both built upon postscript foundations. Both programs include a full postscript interpreter.

Adobe illustrator is to postscript, what cobol was to assembler language. Each drawing command in the original illustrator had a 1:1 correspondence to the postscript language.

The screen button in photoshop has a 1:1 correspondence to the postscript transfer function.

When you convert an image to a halftone in photoshop, it will follow all of the postscript rules. Type in 75 degrees and measure what it produces. I'll bet $1 it isn't 75 degrees.

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