PostScript Escape Question

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From: Jeff A. Hallett
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1987 16:16

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Hi all!

I was reading January's MacUser and noticed a reference to a little
known PostScript feature for the LaserWriter and MacWrite.  If you
have a public domain font known as "PostScript Escape" and you use it
to type PostScript code at the beginning of a MacWrite document, the
things in the PS-Escape font (only) will be interpreted as PostScript
commands.  In other words, if you have this font, you can do some
funky things PostScript in ANY word processor.

Another nice feature is that when you finish the code in this font, if
you put it into 9 point, it collapses to be 1 pixel high, thusly
preserving (somewhat) the WYSIWYG-ness of MacWrite minus the PS.

If anyone has this font, please mail it to me or post it or just
respond to this message.

Thanks much.


Jeffrey A. Hallett               (ARPANET:  hallett@ge-crd.arpa   
Software Technology Program       UUCP:     desdemona!hallett@steinmetz.uucp)
General Electric Corporate Research and Development
"The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many"    -- Kirk  (STIII)

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Subject: PostScript Escape Question
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Date: 29 Dec 87 16:16:10 GMT
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