🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <26483@dhw68k.cts.com> johngm@dhw68k.cts.com (John Miller) writes:
$In article <4506@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
$> There is a company that produces something called GoScript, which is
$> supposed to do this.  However, I'd like to see something show up on the
$> shareware market, cuz I'm a poor student and I can't afford their $200
$> price tag.  I have thought about writing a PS interpreter for my
$> printer, but I haven't gotten around to it (yet).
$I just started using GoScript and am very very impressed, everything I have
$thrown at it has worked incredibly well.  I use it to produce drafts of
$work on an old Star SG-10 and the output on that is better than any program
$I have seen.  My final work is output on a Panasonic KXP-1124 24 pin printer.
$The quality in astounding!  This printer can produce 360 dpi res. But the
$only program I have seen that uses this capabilities is GoScript.

   I've used GoScript Plus with an HP LJ2 and a Star NX-1000 (240x218 dpi)
and have been impressed with the results, but not without a few caveats:

- This program is (understandably) a pig!  If you're seriously looking at
  using GoScript, get a 386 machine with a 387; a 286 with a 287 is alright
  if you won't be using it too often, and don't even bother using it on an
  8088 machine.

- Make sure you have enough EMS for the bitmap (about 600K for the NX-1000,
  around a meg for the laser).  If you don't, it will store its bitmap on the
  disk while it's working - SLOW!  SLOW!

- GoScript won't print as close to the edges of the page as a real PostScript
  printer will.  The page numbers on my resume (top right-hand corner) got
  cut off the first time I ran it through GoScript, while they'll print fine
  on a LaserWriter II/NT.

- Jaggies are comparable to a real PostScript printer.  Sometimes they'll be
  a bit worse, sometimes a bit better - this pretty well averages out to the
  same print quality

- Using GoScript on a dot-matrix (or at least on mine) results in medium fonts
  coming out not too much ligher than bold fonts; this is not a problem on the
  laserjet.

IMHO, of course.

-- 
Stephen M. Dunn                              cs4g6ag@maccs.McMaster.CA
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