🚀 go-pugleaf

[In article <40421@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>,
     v105mahs@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peter P Donohue) writes ... ]

>    Anyone have experience with Ventura Publisher and fax cards?  I am
> trying to save/print something from Ventura to a file which I can then
> fax with the card.
>    I am working on a 20 mhz 386 running MS-DOS v3.3 and Ventura Desk
> Top Publisher v2.0.  I have an internal send only fax (bought from JDR
> Microdevices, built by Prometheus) installed.  The fax card can send
> files in any one of the following formats: ASCII, TIFF, IMG, FAX, PCX,
> DCX, and Tiff-F.
>    I would like to take advantage of many of Ventura's page layout and
> graphic import capabilities, so Ascii is not possible.  I have saved
> files to postscript and believe that I should be able to save them to
> HPG.  Does anyone know of a way to save/print a chapter to any one of
> the other formats?

Here's another method.

We* use Pagemaker to write out a PostScript file. (Ventura would work
equally well.) The PostScript is fed to an interpreter that creates a TIFF
file. Our fax broadcaster likes PCX, so we run the TIFF file through
another converter, then send it across a LAN to the fax broadcaster.

The interpreter is GammaScript, an OEM version of UltraScript, which is a
QMS/Imagen clone of PostScript. UltraScript is widely available for PCs,
Ataris, etc. It has a wide variety of printer drivers.  I imagine that
postmaster@imagen.UUCP can give you phone numbers and/or addresses for
more information.

--

*I'm an editor at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis-St. Paul. We have a daily
afternoon fax edition. I'm not speaking on behalf of the paper.