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From: rustyh@wam.umd.edu (Michael Katzmann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: ACSII text to postscript
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Date: 11 Apr 91 21:04:39 GMT
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All of the ways I have seen to print ascii on a postscript printer
seem to convert the text to postscript.  

A friend of mine wrote a programme IN postscript that executes in 
the printer, making it a "dumb" printer that will print straight text.
Changes in Margins/fonts/orientation/size etc is done by \\ "escapes".

The neat thing about it is that it is "host independent" and is 
just sent to the printer as a header. Also there is no extra stuff
tacked to the text, so it is faster to send to the printer.
If enough people are  interested I'll post it to the net. (or you can E-mail
me at the address BELOW.) (Note don't post to this machine!)

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