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From: vic@zen.co.uk (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Wanted: Postscript to HPGL Laserjet
Keywords: HPGL laserjet HPlaser postscript help
Message-ID: <1670@zen.co.uk>
Date: 1 Aug 89 10:03:33 GMT
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Reply-To: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
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In article <6161@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> wesf@watdcsu.waterloo.edu ( FROM W    - COMPUTING SERVICES    ) writes:
>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

GoScript and Freedom of the Press only run on IBM PC-a-likes. The review said
that they basically worked, didn't produce the same output as each other or a
postscript printer and were vvvvveeeeerrrrryyyy ssssssllllooooowwww.

GhostScript from GNU is an interpreter for displaying postscript on bitmapped
displays. I have been informed that in the next release it will allow the
images to be saved to a file and from there they can be dumped to a raster
printer.

I can't remember but I don't think that any of them come with Adobe fonts.

			vic
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