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Article #3479

Re: HPLJ III with HP Postscript

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From: Chris Lewis
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 1990 00:15
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In article <31778@netnews.upenn.edu> jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson ) writes:
>2 (hard) We have one die hard WordPerfect person who has
>  tons of HP downloadable fonts.  Is there any hope
>  for us to not have to restart the printer each time
>  this guy wants to print?  I thought that I heard of
>  a PostScript program that emulated an HP (wouldn't
>  that be neat to emulate an HP on an HP ).

Simpler than that - psroff 2.0 has a program that will convert
HP SFP's into Postscript fonts - retarget your WP to generate
postscript and use his fonts in postscript.  Psroff hasn't made it out over
usenet yet, but it is available by FTP - send me mail if you need the
FTP access info.
-- 
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From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
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Subject: Re: HPLJ III with HP Postscript
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Date: 28 Oct 90 00:15:22 GMT
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