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Subject: Request info
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Date: Thu, 15-May-86 20:31:00 EDT
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We are considering purchasing a number of QMS/PostScript laser printers, but
before we can convince the people with the bucks, we need to determine the
availability of software to perform the following tasks under VAX/VMS and
Gould/UTX-32 (Unix):

   * TeX dvi to PostScript.

   * Graphic output to PostScript (currently all our graphic software
        drives Tektronix type devices and VT100s)

   * Scale graphic output and place in a TeX document.

   * Printing of ASCII files.

   * Emulation of any popular line printer, for compatibility with
        existing word-processing software on micros.


If you have, or know about, software packages that can perform some of the
above, please drop me a note. Please remember that I'm stuck here on BITNET so
I can't just pull files off ARPAnet nodes.

If you have had any operating experience with a QMS/PostScript printer that
you'd like to share, or if you can recommend a "better" printer, I'd be more
than happy to hear from you.

thanx                  Ed Kear
                     userhf91@clvm.BITNET