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From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Using a postscript printer for previewing?
Summary: Yup.
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Date: 5 Dec 89 01:51:57 GMT
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In article <POLLACK.89Dec4133944@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu> pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
>
>It seems like it might be possible, in principle, to get a cheap and
>accurate postscript previewer given you already have postscript in a
>printer.

You bet. Check out LaserTalk from Emerald City Software. It uses the printer's
PostScript interpreter to image things, and then ships a bitmap back to your
Macintosh to turn into stuff on the screen. This is in fact a side effect;
what it's really intended for is creating PostScript effects for text that
can then be pasted into Word/MacWrite/etc. documents.

Disclaimer: I don't work for Emerald City. Almost, though... (Hi Frank!)

...laura