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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript File Preview?
Message-ID: <1158@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 89 22:59:27 GMT
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In article <4371@druhi.ATT.COM> terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (TerrellE) writes:
| So what are my options - I just need readable output on a dot-matrix
| printer that will look similar enough to the finished version printed
| on a real PostScript printer so that the finished version will be ok
| the first time.

Use TeX or LaTeX.  The *same* file can be previewed on screen, sent to
the most lowly dot-matrix printer, printed on the local Laser printer
(PostScript or otherwise) or printed on a real typesetter.  And each
machine will produce the *same* output (within the resolution of the
device, of course).

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu