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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Wanted: Postscript to HPGL Laserjet
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Date: 30 Jul 89 15:30:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Jul 30 10:30:00 1989


>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).

GoScript is a commercial Postscript clone program for IBM-PC's.
It will output to LAserJets, DeskJets, common dot matrix printers
or a file. It costs $195 and works fine for some but not all purposes.
So far it has taken everything I have given it (after they fixed a
bug I found). "Setscreen" is not implemented and of course it
wont take Adobe fonts.

Doug McDonald