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From: vgopal@cbnewsc.att.com (venu.p.gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript from WINDOWS WRITE, or PAINT or ..
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.160012.6841@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 20 Dec 90 16:00:12 GMT
References: <2158@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <2158@shodha.enet.dec.com>, b_egan@levers.enet.dec.com (Bob Egan) writes:
> 
> If I specify a "postscript" type printer in Paint or Write or
> say wordperfect, will the output be "postscript"..

Certianly true for WodrPerfect, and I would expect, for the others too.
Certain applications might expect the printer to be permanently dedicated
to a single user - for some of these you might need to "prepend" the prolog
file.
 
> what is the default image from some of the common drawing packages..

PCX, RIX, PIC, IMG, TIFF and others for the PC world

> If I can get GIF ..I have a converter to make it a postscript image.

Don't know any that saves in GIF.. but you can convert many of the formats
to GIF.  There is also  a GIF to postscript converter for the PC someone
posted a while ago.  You can also capture the screen directly into postscript
(on a PC) using Screen-to-Postscript.


> Bob Egan	b_egan@levers.enet.dec.com