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Article #7502Re: Host software alternatives to PS engines?
From: Snoopy T. Beagle
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1988 17:38
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1988 17:38
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||>For people with relatively modest volume printing requirements, it would seem
||>ideal to be able to buy a cheap printing engine, without PostScript support,
||>and do the PostScript to raster conversion in the host computer. Does anyone
||>know if there is any such product on the market, or anticipated to be? . . .
||makes a product called 'GoScript' for IBM PCs and clones. This is an
||entirely software-based Postscript-compatible interpreter that will
||output to many dot-matrix and laser printers, and a number of
||plotters. The program uses Bitstream's soft font packages, so adding
||fonts to the output should be simple.
|System Requirements:
|o IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible, or IBM PS/2,
|GoScript is listed for $195.00;
Sounds good, is there something available in source for those of us who
use unix machines rather than ms-dosn't machines?
(I just started reading this group, apologies if the answer has already been
posted and I missed it. If so, could someone email me the article(s)?)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!nosun!illian!sopwith!snoopy From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Host software alternatives to PS engines? Summary: is this available in source? Keywords: Postscript Emulation GoScript source Message-ID: <14@sopwith.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 17:38:19 GMT References: <AXA4Jay00VsMI1MUcA@andrew.cmu.edu> <887@skinner.nprdc.arpa> <902@skinner.nprdc.arpa> Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle) Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm Lines: 27