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Article #2701Re: new uses for old printers
From: Jack Callahan
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 22:07
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 22:07
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In article <290@nih-csl.nih.gov> crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) writes: >.... >I've adopted them for use with Ghostscript, and wonder if others >have had experience in other environments. Shortly after posting my question, I took the messenger, haeberli, and dijkstra fonts and successfully printed them with the tryfont.ps program on my Panasonic KXP1091 printer using PSMAGIC! It helped to be familiar with PostScript, but the few changes were very trivial. I was really surprised to see my little ol' printer turn backflips after doing only jumping jacks for most of its electronic life. They weren't kidding, however, when they said "it's slow" ... BCNU, -- jack -- Jack Callahan - callahan@brillig.umd.edu Computer Science Department University of Maryland, College Park <insert a cute and witty disclaimer here>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!mimsy!callahan From: callahan@mimsy.umd.edu (Jack Callahan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: new uses for old printers Keywords: psmagic, dot matrix printers, slow, hi mom! Message-ID: <25858@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 2 Aug 90 22:07:57 GMT References: <25821@mimsy.umd.edu> <290@nih-csl.nih.gov> Reply-To: callahan@mimsy.umd.edu (Jack Callahan) Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 22