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Article #8244Re: looking for a Postscript converter program
From: Norman S. Soley
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1989 17:49
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1989 17:49
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In article <980001@hpwrce.HP.COM> howeird@hpwrce.HP.COM (Howard Stateman) writes:
>>Does anyone have a program, or can point me to a source, whereby
>>I can print out Postscript page files on the HP Deskjet printer?
>
>I'm afraid you're out of luck. The Deskjet is not capable of printing
>Postscript, and there is no upgrade to make it do so. There also are
>no conversion utilities which can take a postscript page and convert
>it to anything the Deskjet can read.
I'm afraid he's not out of luck, there's a program called GoSript which
can convert postscript to any number of different printer languages.
Including the DeskJet. It's slow, really slow (can take as long as 45
minutes to do a page) but at $195US it's a lot cheaper than a postscript
printer.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!moegate!soley From: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: looking for a Postscript converter program Message-ID: <245@moegate.UUCP> Date: 16 Apr 89 17:49:31 GMT References: <1226@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <980001@hpwrce.HP.COM> Reply-To: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment Lines: 27