Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!usna!baldwin
From: baldwin@usna.MIL (J.D. Baldwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Another question about:  WP 5.0 postscript capability??
Message-ID: <283@usna.MIL>
Date: 5 Nov 89 04:16:45 GMT
References: <12693@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1989Nov5.023735.27566@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: baldwin@cad.usna.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
Organization: Canoe U.
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markxx@garnet.berkeley.edu writes:
>[...] leunglee@sybil.cs.buffalo.edu (Leung Lee) writes:
>>Does anyone know how to have WP 5.0 to output a postscript file.
>>There seems to be no information on this whatsoever after leafing
>>through the books in book stores!
>   [here markxx provides a good answer to the basic question...]

A similar problem has been driving me crazy lately.  I get PostScript output
to a file just fine, via a method similar to the one Mark described.  However,
I find it odd that a word processor that supports PS does not support "line
draw" in PS.  The printer I have been using/selecting is an NEC Silentwriter
890 in PostScript mode.  I can't get that thing to draw a line to save my
life!  I've read the FM, I've beaten the on-line help key to death, and I've
consulted (albeit briefly) a couple of commercial books on the subject.  No
luck.

I have *no* trouble getting line draw out of the HP LaserJet + on our Ethernet,
but the HP is not capable of a bunch of things that the NEC printer is (size
selection with fonts, for example).  I use WP mainly for making transparencies
for class, and I try to make as many diagrams as possible, which requires a
lot of boxing and lines.  Maybe the department will give me that Sun
workstation I asked for, and I can start using FrameMaker and LaTex and dis-
pense with this WP junk.  But I digress.

In the meantime, can anyone provide me with a fix for this problem?  Has
someone out there *written* a PostScript font which supports WP line draw?
Perhaps the WP people have come out with an extended set of fonts and failed
to let me know?  I have tremendous respect for the power of WP (I am a refugee
from PCWrite and WordStar), but this failure to exploit a fairly basic 
feature of PS seems to me a little, well . . . cheap.  

Incidentally, I get great results with boxed graphic images.
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