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Re: Postscript files to dot matrix printers ?

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From: Ed Haymore
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:39
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Colin Johnson (colinj@engin.umich.edu) wrote:
| In article <1993Jan28.010051.18902@netcom.com> fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
| >Robert_Magee@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Magee) writes:
| >
| >>I belive there is a PD software called Go Script which does a creditable job
| >>of printing postscript files to dot matrix printers.
| >
| >The name of the utility is GhostScript, and it can be found at Simtel-20
| >in the PD1:<MSDOS.POSTSCRIPT> directory, under the filenames of GS252*.*
| >and 25*.*.  Yes, there are a lot of files.
| >

| 	To the best of my knowledge ghostscript will not print but it will
| allow you to view just about any postscript file.

Prints great on my 9-pin Panasonic.  Looks even better on a 24-pin
Panasonic.  (And better still on my roommate's DeskJet 500!)

--
Ed Haymore
ed@byu.edu
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