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From: rivard@granite.ma30.bull.com (Dennis Rivard)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Print Postscript font on 9-pin printer program wanted
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.185147.12271@granite.ma30.bull.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 18:51:47 GMT
References: <2811@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> <1991Jun13.125305.22403@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <20588@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
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In article <20588@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> hartung@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) writes:
>I have seen a comercial program in some software stores called GOSCRIPT which
>is supposed to do this.  It ain't cheap.  I recall it cost something in the
>neighborhood of $200 - $300.  On the otherhand, there is also LQ, available at
>SIMTEL20 and other places, which is a TSR which can work w/ WordPerfect and
>other programs to make near letter quality print come off of your aging 9-pin
>dot matrix printer.  It has several fonts, and the print is quite an
>improvement, albeit slow to print since it causes your printer to print in
>high density graphics mode.  You might want to give this a try.


Another program to try and get laser quality out of a 9=pin, is Image
Print...
it has 24 fonts and allows you _FULL_ controll of your printer... it
is similar to TeX in style (near as I can tell, anyway), and produces
beautiful output...




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