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From: dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Postscript generating drawing program
Keywords: postscript, drawing, draw
Message-ID: <4104@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 89 17:10:26 GMT
References: <3140@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs - Lincroft, NJ
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In article <3140@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> gavin@mit-caf.UUCP (Gavin C. H. Zau) writes:
>Our system has just been changed to a postscript printer.  Is
>there a 'Freelance' like (or better) drawing program that 
>generates postscript output for the PC line??  Thanks

Microsoft Windows has the ability to install printers as Postscript
printers.  I had been using MicroGrafX' In-A-Vision program for
doing my drawings, when we switched from a Laserjet+ to a Postscript
printer.  All I had to do was define the new printer as [the right
brand of] Postscript printer, and it worked right away.  I suspect
that any true Windows application would behave similarly.

I did notice that the output files were bigger than with the Laserjet,
but that goes with the printer, not the drawing program.  (Unless,
of course, the program is smart enough to use fonts built into the
printer instead of drawing characters with pixels.  And that comment
assumes that a good percentage of the pixels in each drawing come
from text on the drawing -- true in my stuff but maybe not in yours.)

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