Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!pyramid!voder!kontron!optilink!cramer
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Postscript to Dot Matrix filter
Message-ID: <1937@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 17:48:30 GMT
References: <445@n8emr.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
Lines: 21

> 
> I was thinking yesterday that it would be relatively simple for one to convert
> Postscript files into Epson, etc. sequences for draft style output.  Obviously
> it would not be of a quality to be used as final output, but a dot matrix is
> significantly cheaper than a laser overall - base price, supplies, duty cycles,
> etc.
> 
> Surely someone out there has done something like this.  Is there some standard
> software available?  Thanks!
> -- 

Hell, there's nothing to it!  Just write  a PostScript interpreter, develop
nominal 1-point font outlines for 35 fonts, write a translator to convert
whatever nominal bit map PostScript thinks in, and write some utterly
trivial code to convert say, 1000 dpi bit map to 180 dpi bit map (note
the common factors in 1000 and 180), and you've got it done!

Sorry to be so sarcastic, but I don't think most people realize yet how
powerful PostScript is, and how non-trivial such a program is.

Clayton E. Cramer