Talk:Interpress

Is it really "InterPress"? I thought it was "Interpress" (with a lowercase 'p').

Actually, as the last of the "Interpress" software engineers, I can verify that it is lowercase 'p'. I hope to add more to this page soon. Gmb14502 20:47, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved. Unopposed for over a week. Jenks24 (talk) 11:18, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

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InterPress → Interpress – Apperently as per the discussion above and Xerox documentation such as [1] the name was not camelcased. I can't do this move myself because Interpress is a redirect to InterPress and needs to be deleted first. Peter Flass (talk) 00:17, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

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Broken External Reference Link

The third external reference link (http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/xns/standards/XSIG_038306_Introduction_to_Interpress_Jun1983.pdf) returns 404 now. 76.145.9.182 (talk) 16:00, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Is supported

"... is supported in Xerox Ventura Publisher"

Sure sounds like Interpress is a thing in use, doesn't it? Until you look up VP and find out the final release was in 2002. And the references are from the 1980s. So is Interpress still relevant, or is it some dusty tech that hasn't been used for decades? The article doesn't give a clue. 2A02:AA1:1626:E371:C0D9:8F95:ED37:A646 (talk) 15:22, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

CaesarFMChavez. As a former Xerox engineer, and actively worked on Interpress and PostScript testing at Xerox and in consultation at another printer company, it is doubtful if there is a printer built after about 1990 that accepts Interpress. The Interpress book can still be found on Amazon: Interpress, the source book, by Brady Book. Softbound. Jan 1, 1988. I was one of the authors. But shortly after its publication, even Xerox was forced to yield to PostScript, which the company eventually put on all their printers. Interpress like other Xerox and HP eventually antiquated languages, continued to appear on those printers until they were gradually phased out. Caesarfmchavez (talk) 21:53, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Caesarfmchavez: The article also does not reflect some of the controversy that occurred as Postscript was born out of, or rather wrenched from Interpress, depending on who one spoke with. Xerox PARC invented Windows, but the "toner heads" did not hold on to it. Likewise, it seems that the Xerox "toner heads" (copier folks) did not think retaining ownership of Interpress was all that important. Adobe Systems, Apple and Microsoft were all built on Xerox products... But the American trust laws were partially responsible for Xerox's eventual downgrade... Caesarfmchavez (talk) 22:00, 13 November 2024 (UTC)