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From: bcockburn@acorn.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: ps/eps, Level II, Error stream
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Date: 21 Aug 90 19:25:21 GMT
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  Firstly, on the much discussed "ps to eps" front, would Glenn Ried's
program "distill" perhaps be a good place to start work on a utility that
could produce eps from general ps.  It could read the incoming PostScript,
distill it, then write an eps conformant file as its output.

  Secondly, a question.  Does anybody have any details of the FAX and CCITT
Group 3 & 4 extensions in PostScript level II? A recent posting from
somebody (thing?) called "ouij@xurilka.UUCP (exhausted jazz surfer)" of the
"Church Of Surfing Anarchists" said;

 >>   CCITT stuff will come in handy as we see the proliferation of
 >>   PostScript fax machines.

  Does this mean that machines are available that take PostScript in one end
and spit Group 4 Fax images out of a PTT approved modem at the other?

  Thirdly, a query.  Has anyone had any experience using PostScript printers
(either Adobe or clone) with parallel (centronics) input, if so, is it
possible to "get at" the standard output stream?  Where do those nice error
messages go?
  
  Regards Brian Cockburn.