Re: ghostscript for next

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From: John B. Lockhart
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 00:00

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In article <61596@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
>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.

To a DeskJet?  In color?  Through a fax modem?  Without buying software?
NOT.  NeXT has gone out of its way to create fax software which works
with one brand of fax modem.  Similarly, they created dot matrix printer
support in 3.0 (shades of ghostscript!) but then didn't bother to document
it.

--John


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