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From: friedman@chekov.UU.NET (Barry Friedman)
Subject: Re: ACSII text to postscript
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.002701.17403@bmers145.bnr.ca>
Summary: dumb postscript too dumb
Keywords: postscript ascii dumb
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References: <43684@muvms3.bitnet> <1991Apr11.145636.462@debet.nhh.no> <1991Apr11.210439.19346@wam.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 00:27:01 GMT

In article <1991Apr11.210439.19346@wam.umd.edu> rustyh@wam.umd.edu (Michael Katzmann) writes:
>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".
>

Being in need of a program to allow our printers to handle postscript
and ascii transparently, I tried the 'dumb' ascii program recently 
posted by Michael Katzmann.  Unfortunately, either it or I am too
dumb :-) since it appears that once this program is loaded into a
printer there is no way to revert to normal postscript operation short
of powering off the printer.  Besides this the printer is extremely
slow since the code seems to process input a character at a time.

Come on guys, what is *THE BEST* unix solution to this problem?

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