Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!nic!vinsci From: vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: Postscript Preferences Driver Message-ID: Date: 21 Jan 91 00:51:10 GMT References: <4433@mindlink.UUCP> Sender: vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) Organization: Soft Service, Inc. Lines: 64 In-Reply-To: a468@mindlink.UUCP's message of 12 Jan 91 18:23:15 GMT In article <4433@mindlink.UUCP> a468@mindlink.UUCP (Graham Parkinson) writes: Hello Leonard Thanks for your reply which I received the next day here on the other side of the planet. Modern times :-) I don't read the news every day though... E-Mail is checked more often though. Can you give some more details of the Postscript driver "Postdriver"? Price, The price will change, in the upward direction; new price not decided upon yet. It will remain under $100. font control Yes, you can specify what PostScript fonts to use, their size (in points, starting with the February release). Separate controls for proportional and monospaced fonts. Full underline, italics, boldface and any combination. Superscripts and subscripts are of course fully supported. rotations, scaling etc. landscape/portrait selectable (Feb release); None, 2, 4, 8, 16 etc. up to 1024 thumbnails per sheet of paper can be printed with automatic scaling and rotation, None= normal output. Does it have an intuition interface like the preferences gadgets Yes. It is like the WB 2.0 preferences, also under WB1.3. You can save preferences or change them temporarily. You can also try out your settings without leaving the PostDriver preferences program, by pressing the shift key while selecting the "Use" gadget. - does it replace preferences - can you bypass it for other printer modes? I'm not sure I understand what you mean here, however: PostDriver is a fully compatible preferences printer driver that installs in the workbench printers directory. PostDriver doesn't replace the printer.device (there is no need to do that); you select it like any other printer driver in the Amiga preferences. If you want to use an other printer temporarily, you just switch the active printer driver in preferences. PostDriver have a whole bunch of other needed features, like extensive graphics support (the Feb release have color PostScript support too!), direct print to file (no CMD needed) & more. Suggestions are always welcome, problems get fixed. And of course how much would the shipping be from Finland to North America? Affordable, but depends on what kind of shipping you need. We can ship it by courier (your choise of either TNT Skypac or DHL) or normal air-mail (about 10 days to the US). Courier service is about US$ 50 for the europe->US direction. Yours from Lat 49.2 N Long 123.2 W Now I'll have to find out where that is! ;-) -- Leonard