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From: smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: GoScript Information Needed
Keywords: Postscript Interpreter, Hewlett Packard
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Date: 20 Oct 88 17:41:43 GMT
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In article <1292@edge.UUCP> ronnie@edge.UUCP (Ronnie Coffin) writes:
>Has anyone had any experiences or comments regarding the new software called
>"GoScript", which I've seen advertised in recent PC magazines?
>
>It appears to be a postscripot interpreter which would allow you to convert
>postscript programs so that you can print them on a non-postscript Hewlett-
>Packard laser printer.  Since a postscript upgrade for most lasers costs
>about $1600 and GoScript sells for $195, this might be a very worthwhile
>product if it truly works.  There most recent ad shows outline fonts and
>their availability on a wide-variety of printers.
>
The November Issue of Byte has a review of two or three PostScript
interpreters.  Their basic conclusion was that they are cheap, but
very, very SLOW.
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J. Daniel Smith                           smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu
Michigan State University

"An average English word is four letters and a half.  By hard, honest
labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it 
down till the average is three and a half..."
      Mark Twain
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