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From: wesf@watdcsu.waterloo.edu ( FROM W    - COMPUTING SERVICES    )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Wanted: Postscript to HPGL Laserjet
Keywords: HPGL laserjet HPlaser postscript help
Message-ID: <6161@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 89 12:47:27 GMT
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In article <2145@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ecf_ulw@jhunix.UUCP (Lee Watkins) writes:
>I have this add from a PC retailer in New Jersey in the US that
>describes a program called GoScript, which supposedly allows
>postscript output to be printed on a HP DeskJet (which uses the same
>printer language as the LaserJet, PCL, which BTW is not the same as
>the HP plotter language HPGL).  It must be a translator, but someone
>suggested to me that the name is a pseudonym for GhostScript, a
>product of the Free Software Foundation (the GNU people).
>
>Lee Watkins 

There is indeed a conversion program called GoScript, and also one called
Freedom of Press.  They are software implementations of PostScript that 
allow you to print PostScript on non-PostScript printers.  To the best of
my knowledge, HPGL is NOT one of the output formats that they can translate
to (the vector/raster dichotomy).  I believe they are both reviewed in the
April 11, 1989 edition of PC Magazine (p. 218 ?).

				Wes From
				Department of Computing Services
				University of Waterloo
				wesf@watdcsu.waterloo.edu