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From: francis@trillian.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
Subject: Re: PD Postscript Interpreter?
In-Reply-To: musjjh@lure.latrobe.edu.au's message of 19 May 91 09: 49:22 GMT
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Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 03:47:50 GMT

In article <1991May19.194922.1@lure.latrobe.edu.au> musjjh@lure.latrobe.edu.au writes:

   Is their anything vaguely resembling a public domain equivellent of
   "Freedom of the Press" in existence? (ie. a postscript interpreter
   enabling you to send postscript files to stylewriters, deskjets and
   so on)

First of all, you have to realize that PostScript itself is not PD:
it's property of Adobe, and you have to pay them for a license if
you're going to interpret it.  I *think* PostScript 1.0 is PD now, but
I'm not sure.  There is, however, something called GhostScript, which
is a PD version of PostScript; I think it's from the GNU people.
Don't know how they managed it, or whether an interpreter is available
for Mac (my guess would be no; FSF hates Apple).

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