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From: hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: postscript interpreters
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.050530.7457@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 05:05:30 GMT
References: <37619@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen)
Organization: Unemployed Mac Fanatics, Inc.
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In article <37619@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> medmarkd@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>Has anyone used Tscript or Ultrascript?  Any info about these
>low cost postscript interperters (I can't afford Freedom of the
>Press!!!) would be greatly appreciated.

I've seen and briefly used TScript and Freedom of Press (no the in the name).
QMS kept dragging their feet about sending me a copy of UltraScript, saying it
wasn't shipping yet.

Brief comment: TScript is slow and somewhat buggy. FOP is expensive, but
it does the best job (the latest release, 3.0, supports many B&W printers 
like the Apple & GCC QuickDraw lasers - the previous versions did not). 
From a recent roundup in the latest (09/25/90) MacWEEK, I got the impression
that the author didn't like UltraScript, because it wasn't compatible
with Suitcase II or ATM (?). I can't verify that statement, though. Grab
a copy of the article, if you can...

Robert