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Article #6861Re: IDEA! - A Text And Graphics Formatter WRITTEN IN POSTSCRIPT
From: Stuart Schmukler
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1988 18:01
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1988 18:01
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In article <8802060615.AA20361@M66-080-5.MIT.EDU> mbparker@ATHENA.MIT.EDU writes: >Why not have a text (and even graphics) formatter directly in postscript?! >... >I'm excited about the idea. Does anybody know if something like it >has already been done before? If it hasn't, why not? Seems like >a unique possibility! These was a set of programs posted awhile ago called 'txttops' that are an early attempt at a formatter on the printer. As its author jb@csustan.UUCP [my quess at the address] states: It is quite limited but still handy for some things. However it is currently written for MS-DOS, when I tried it on an IRIS system V machine it did not seem to generate postscript that my printer liked. So, it needs work. SaS
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!umd5!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!iuvax!inuxc!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!sas1 From: sas1@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Stuart Schmukler) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: IDEA! - A Text And Graphics Formatter WRITTEN IN POSTSCRIPT Message-ID: <3367@sphinx.uchicago.edu> Date: 7 Feb 88 18:01:13 GMT References: <8802060615.AA20361@M66-080-5.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: sas1@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Stuart Schmukler) Organization: U Chicago Computation Center Lines: 18