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From: Jordan B Pollack
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1989 20:24

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It seems like it might be possible to get a cheap (and very accurate!)
postscript previewer (if you already have postscript in a printer) by
mucking with scaling the device, page-size and/or resolution to fit a
host graphic screen or window, rendering in the printer at the reduced
resolution, and redefining showpage to print the small image back to
the host in some innocuous ascii format. 

Does anyone have any pointers to it having been done already in some
PD or commercial product, or advice on potential problems (including
why, if its impossible) besides the slowness of serial transmission
speed? 

Jordan

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