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Re: Using a postscript printer for previewing?

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From: Dave Shaver
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 03:58
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pollack@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jordan B Pollack) writes:

>Imagine being able to get
>bitmaps for proprietary fonts back to the host!  So I guess its
>probably impossible without a lot of money.

Not much money at all.  8-)  Look at Don Lancaster's "Ask the Guru"
column in the February 1989 issue of Computer Shopper.  He shows how to
do exactly what you're talking about.

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