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NH::>Firstly, does anyone know if this product is any good?
  ::>Secondly, does anyone know if it will work on my LX-800?

  Firstly:  I used to use this program (until I ran out of disk space; 
  GoScript was the first thing that went - it's huge).  I liked it, 
  although occasionally it would break on PS files that were perfectly 
  O.K. when dumped to a real PS printer.  I reported the bugs; some of 
  them got fixed, some didn't. (I no longer use it; I've got a 
  TrueType system.)

  GoScript supplies its fonts in a proprietary format.  It will take 
  type 1 and 3 Adobe fonts, but because of the way it handles them (as 
  opposed to the way it handles its proprietary format), you will not 
  be able to include more than two or three Adobe fonts in a PS 
  document.  Very nasty restriction, as there aren't a lot of GoFonts 
  (the proprietary format) beyond the "standard" 35 and the most 
  common decoratives.

  GoScript is something of a resource hog; the driver simply converts 
  the PS code into a bit map in memory (If you're lucky, and have XMS 
  or EMS - 1 to 1.5 Meg per page, depending on printer resolution) or 
  on disk (if you're not lucky - same requirement), and when it hits 
  the showpage, it shovels the bit map out to your printer.  
  Slooooooooow!

  Secondly:  I believe that the LXs are compatible with either the LQs 
  or the FXs (I forget which), so you should be able to use one of 
  those drivers.  There may also be a LX driver; they added a bunch of 
  drivers when they released the 3.0 version (I started with 2.0 and 
  upgraded to 3.0), and I simply don't recall whether the LX was one 
  of the new drivers.

  Overall rating: 4.5 - 5.5 (1 to 10 scale, 10 best).
  Best feature: Wide range of printers supported.
  Worst feature: Unpredictability as to when you'll exceed its 
  capacity.
  Drawbacks: slow, limited capability to handle 3rd party fonts, large 
  resource requirements, erratic bugs.
  Worth it?  Call it, based on your own needs.  Once I got Win31 and 
  TT, no.

  J/
  jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com
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