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by mistrial9 723 days ago
> Interpress could easily index the pages and just start printing from any where. Not so with PostScript.

Granted, a general purpose dot-ps file would have to be completely executed, yes, to get any particular page..

but no, not true after the early days.. Postscript structuring conventions allowed page extraction and therefor page execution after the header parts executed..