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From: bush@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Mark Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Postscript conversion program
Keywords: Postscript, Kyocera
Message-ID: <1525@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Apr 91 21:07:40 GMT
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In article <1562@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
#In article <2607@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> bart@icarus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Bart De Decker) writes:
#<I am looking for a public domain program that converts a postscript file
#<into something that can be fed into a Kyocera printer (Basically HPLJ).
#<Is there something around that does not need to convert the postscript-file
#<into a pixel representation?
#
#The other problem is the drawing capabilites of PostScript.  The LJ has
#nothing to do drawings like PostScript can.  If any arcs were called for,
#the LJ would be lost.
#
#Looks like bit-map conversion to me.

In which case, take a look at GhostScript.  It has drivers for various
displays/printers.  The rendering is fast, but the size of the file produced
for an HPLJ printer may make the actual printing slow (though performance
improves by using a parallel connection rather than serial).

You can get the latest version (2.1.1) from prep.ai.mit.edu in the pub/gnu
directory.  You'll want to pick up the files ghostscript-2.1.1.tar.Z and
ghostscript-2.1fonts.tar.Z.

Mark