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Article #1422Re: Using a postscript printer for previewing?
From: Laura Halliday
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1989 01:51
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1989 01:51
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In article <POLLACK.89Dec4133944@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu> pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: > >It seems like it might be possible, in principle, to get a cheap and >accurate postscript previewer given you already have postscript in a >printer. You bet. Check out LaserTalk from Emerald City Software. It uses the printer's PostScript interpreter to image things, and then ships a bitmap back to your Macintosh to turn into stuff on the screen. This is in fact a side effect; what it's really intended for is creating PostScript effects for text that can then be pasted into Word/MacWrite/etc. documents. Disclaimer: I don't work for Emerald City. Almost, though... (Hi Frank!) ...laura
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!mintaka!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!cheddar.cc.ubc.ca!halliday From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Using a postscript printer for previewing? Summary: Yup. Message-ID: <5872@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 89 01:51:57 GMT References: <POLLACK.89Dec4133944@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca Reply-To: halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) Distribution: comp Organization: UBC Computing Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 15