Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!cs4g6ag From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Are there PostScript --> Epson graphics filters? Summary: GoScript Plus Keywords: postscript epson graphics translators filters Message-ID: <251418DB.918@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 17 Sep 89 22:21:15 GMT Article-I.D.: maccs.251418DB.918 References: <508@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US> <4506@cps3xx.UUCP> <26483@dhw68k.cts.com> Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 46 In article <26483@dhw68k.cts.com> johngm@dhw68k.cts.com (John Miller) writes: $In article <4506@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes: $> There is a company that produces something called GoScript, which is $> supposed to do this. However, I'd like to see something show up on the $> shareware market, cuz I'm a poor student and I can't afford their $200 $> price tag. I have thought about writing a PS interpreter for my $> printer, but I haven't gotten around to it (yet). $I just started using GoScript and am very very impressed, everything I have $thrown at it has worked incredibly well. I use it to produce drafts of $work on an old Star SG-10 and the output on that is better than any program $I have seen. My final work is output on a Panasonic KXP-1124 24 pin printer. $The quality in astounding! This printer can produce 360 dpi res. But the $only program I have seen that uses this capabilities is GoScript. I've used GoScript Plus with an HP LJ2 and a Star NX-1000 (240x218 dpi) and have been impressed with the results, but not without a few caveats: - This program is (understandably) a pig! If you're seriously looking at using GoScript, get a 386 machine with a 387; a 286 with a 287 is alright if you won't be using it too often, and don't even bother using it on an 8088 machine. - Make sure you have enough EMS for the bitmap (about 600K for the NX-1000, around a meg for the laser). If you don't, it will store its bitmap on the disk while it's working - SLOW! SLOW! - GoScript won't print as close to the edges of the page as a real PostScript printer will. The page numbers on my resume (top right-hand corner) got cut off the first time I ran it through GoScript, while they'll print fine on a LaserWriter II/NT. - Jaggies are comparable to a real PostScript printer. Sometimes they'll be a bit worse, sometimes a bit better - this pretty well averages out to the same print quality - Using GoScript on a dot-matrix (or at least on mine) results in medium fonts coming out not too much ligher than bold fonts; this is not a problem on the laserjet. IMHO, of course. -- Stephen M. Dunn cs4g6ag@maccs.McMaster.CA ********************************************************************** = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n"; "VM is like an orgasm: the less you have to fake, the better." - S.C.