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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Postscript to Dot Matrix filter
Message-ID: <1952@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 01:23:02 GMT
References: <445@n8emr.UUCP> <1937@optilink.UUCP> <454@n8emr.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> 
> I am sorry that mr cramer felt it necessary to be so sarcastic; I have
> gotten private mail from several others who also have this need ; see, 
> there are those of us in the world who can only affort dot matrix printers;
> when your hardware makes the assumption that postscript is the standard
> output - and you all know what kind I am talking about I will bet - then
> finding these filters become more than a convienience.  Note that we have
> seen dozens of postscript - something or something -> postscript filters
> posted to the net; since there are many more dot matrix printers out there than
> laser I figured that one of the brilliant ones would have done this; I mena,
> the postscript interpreter is already done and was posted to comp.sources.unix.
> The appropriate driver is needed, but there are fonts galore - and some of
> us have dot matrix printers which allow fonts to be downloaded.
> 
> Larry W. Virden	 75046,606 (CIS)

I would like it also -- my sarcasm was a little strong, but having spent
a bit of time chasing down the problem, (and studying the very significant
problem of getting useable performance doing full page graphics on dot
matrix printers), the request struck me as equivalent to, "Does anyone have
a public domain program that accurate simulates and predicts the stock
market?"

Sorry if I offended anyone -- that really wasn't my intent.

Clayton E. Cramer