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In article <1992Apr14.102756.10825@beaver.cs.washington.edu> bgilbert@cs.washington.edu (Benjamin Gilbert) writes:
>favorable.  One point you mentioned was Postscript-to-disk ability... this
>seems like a strange function for a word processor, seems like if you
>want postscript you *DO* want a Desktop Publishing program (Pagestream would
>do this for you).  For all I know, Wordflair II might do this but I don't
>know one way or the other?  I don't think this is a common word 
>processor function, on other computers either, although like I alluded to,
>Wordflair II is much more than a simple word processor.

Actually, some kind of Postscript support is pretty much standard for
all decent word processors on all platforms.  The usual method is to
send a chunk of Postscript code to the printer to cause it to emulate
a microspace printer.  Then the word processor simply outputs using
its ordinary routines for printing proportional fonts on a microspace
printer.  This is the method used by Microsoft Word, e.g., and by Word
Perfect (all versions, including the Atari one).

I've been considering Wordflair II since WPCorp dropped their Atari
support, but I definitely need Postscript output.  Does anyone know
whether Wordflair provides it?

BBB
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