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From: cc4b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Brian Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Postscript to Dot Matrix filter
Message-ID: <4W94Uoy00V4VoY409m@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 88 15:58:44 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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In-Reply-To: <172@sea375.UUCP>



Anyone who thinks converting PostScript to Epson is simple has not looked very 
hard at the problem.
It is definitely NOT simple.
Think about the implementation of the curves, gray scale, text in different 
styles at any angle, etc.
There is no simple way (such as a filter) of making the conversion.

I am finishing up a bitmap package for the Postscript Interpreter posted a 
while back.  When it's finished the bitmap output should be printable on an 
Epson printer (or anything else for that matter).
Writing the bitmap package has not been simple. Writing the Interpreter was 
certainly worse.

Yes, when I'm done I will be posting the source for the bitmap package.

-Chris Cox
cc4b@andrew.cmu.edu