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From: c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Walter C3arlip)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MacRip: Postscript-->Quickdraw
Summary: Anyone tried it?
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Date: 25 Jan 90 01:17:00 GMT
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The Macintosh store across the street just got in a new product: MacRip.
Allegedly this package takes postscript files and prints them on an
assortment of quickdraw printers (deskwriters, plp's, imagewriters,
laserwriter SCs, etc.) as well as previewing on screen.  For a list price
of $150.00, this sounds like a wonderful product.

I tried it, and had great success with the screen previews, and encountered
some flakyness with printing on various engines.  Since I was using the mac
in the store (with an accellerator and a bunch of inits--basically a
complicated, and unknown configuration) I don't really want to make a
judgement.

Has anyone else tried this or its more expensive competition (Freedom of
the Press)?  Lets post some interesting reviews!

--Walter
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Walter C3arlip 				c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu
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_____________________________________________________________________________
Walter C3arlip 				c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu
(the "3" is silent)			c3ar%zaphod@UCHIMVS1.bitnet
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