Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Postscript from Calamus Message-ID: Date: 24 May 91 18:02:56 GMT References: <1991May24.122945.11592@cs.umu.se> Organization: St. Croix Valley rhubarb and tomato patch Lines: 38 X-UUCP-route: {rutgers,plains,decwrl}!umn-cs!thelake!steve [In article <1991May24.122945.11592@cs.umu.se>, jan@cs.umu.se (Jan T}ngring) writes ... ] > There is a DTP-program called Calamus. It doesn't generate > postscript code. > > Questions: > What does it generate? Bitmaps in any of several formats, depending on the printer driver. Calamus uses a proprietary font-scaling technology (actually, I think it's licensed from Agfa Compugraphic) and generates its own bit images for both screen and printer output. Because its font technology is both very good and very fast, you get a high degree of correspondence between what you see and what you get, and you get it quickly with a bit-image printer such as the Atari SLM804 or SLM605. > Are there any public domain to-postscript-converters available? None that I am aware of. If the only printer you have available is PostScript, then Calamus is not the right tool. PageStream is probably what you need. PageStream 1.8 has its own font-scaling technology that is markedly inferior to that of Calamus, but it also has PostScript output drivers for monochrome and color printers that call upon the PostScript interpreter to supply fonts when possible. That means PageStream is slower than Calamus and has less correspondence between the screen image and the output image, but it also means you can get excellent type quality and, or course, portability. PageStream 2 is supposed to be able to use PostScript fonts to generate its screen images, but I don't know whether it is available yet. ---- Steve Yelvington, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, USA / steve@thelake.mn.org