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Article #78Re: ghostscript for next
From: Alex Blakemore
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 17:18
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 17:18
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keithr@ldgo.columbia.edu (keith rogers) writes: >>> Can anyone tell me where to get a version of ghostscript for the NeXT? rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Robert Stephen Rodgers) writes: >> why the heck would you need such a thing? lockhart@eecom.gatech.edu (John B. Lockhart) writes: > I can take two guesses: > - Ghostscript can *print* > - Ghostscript can *fax* (with additional (free) software) Every NeXT comes with a PostScript Level II previewer called Preview that *does* print and fax and zoom and do n-up, landscape or portrait. There is also an interactive PostScript interpreter called YAP that comes bundled with every NeXT. NeXT lives and breathes PostScript. Why on earth would you want ghostscript on a NeXT? (other GNU software I can understand) -- --------------------------------------------------- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!dtix!mimsy!alex From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ghostscript for next Message-ID: <61596@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 29 Oct 92 17:18:43 GMT References: <1992Oct28.194951.17506@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> <1992Oct28.214314.5217@wam.umd.edu> <1992Oct29.014945.10367@ee.gatech.edu> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 24