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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Print to Postscript?
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Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 17:15:42 EST
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Summary: no problem.

In article <4VTpeRy00XoDzE004j@andrew.cmu.edu> jk3n+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Stephen Kalucki) writes:
>
>Is there currently a way for my Amiga to drive a Postscript printer?...
>   ...printing from a DeskTop Publishing program....

All the better DeskTop Publishing programs will output Postscript.  (Someone
is about to kill me :-)  This usually involves supporting some subset of
the available fonts on a typical Laserwriter and conversion of color images
to the 256 level gray scale that is the best postscript can do. (without
nasty color separation...)

For printing, say, 300 DPI graphics, there is no real support.  You would need
to create the huge bitmap with, say, DPaint, then shrink it down once in the
DTP program.  Would you believe that some DTP programs do the transformation at
screen resolution (~75 DPI) rather than sending the entire bitmap to the
postscript device and letting it do the transformation at 300 to 1270 DPI?

Adobe illustator or equivalent is not available.  'nuff said?


For some strange reason, nobody has written a printer driver that would look
like a standard preferences printer, yet output postscript.  This type of
driver would not be expected to take full advantage of postscript... it would
act a lot more like the Diablo emulation mode on the Apple LaserWriter (plus).

	As usual, I'd love to be wrong on any of the above points

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