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Subject: Postscript Typesetters
Message-ID: <125@wright.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 09:55:02 EST
Article-I.D.: wright.125
Posted: Wed Mar  4 09:55:02 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 02:24:53 EST
Organization: Wright State University, Dayton OH, 45435
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Keywords: postscript typesetting troff tex laser

Does anyone have any suggestions about real, production, typesetters
that understand Postscript, or perhaps have a frontend that understands
postscript and perhaps even speaks TCP/IP? I guess the application is
obvious: have one of these on the campus network for use by the media
people. Faculty could submit jobs in troff or TeX form preprocessed
into postscript. We might expect a Sun-like terminal to be attached so
that print jobs could be previewed prior to being typeset, similar to
what we do now with our Suns and our LaserWriter.

Usual disclaimers: we don't know much about typesetting, we're the
UNIX and networking folks here. The typesetting people have heard of
computers and have said that their equipment understands ASCII as
a page description language. Uh, yes, well...

Also, sorry if this is a rehashed subject. If you respond to me
my email, and there is some interest, I would be more than happy
to summarize for the net.

Thanks!
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