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From: ecarroll@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PrintScript - Postscript Interpreter
Message-ID: <41386@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie>
Date: 2 Apr 89 03:08:42 GMT
References: <17110004@hpfcdj.HP.COM> <17110005@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin
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In article <17110005@hpfcdj.HP.COM>, allen@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Allen Norskog) writes:
>
> [Some interesting stuff about PrintScript from Pixelations]
> 
> The program supports most of the Postscript commands.  You can do
> gray-scale, images, rotate text, etc.  I have used it with CityDesk
> and excellence! and it has worked well with both.  A couple things
> that are missing are arbitrary clipping (though you can to rectangular
> clipping) and dashed lines (you always get solid).  The program
> does not support color at this time.
> Allen Norskog
> allen_n@hpfcla.hp.com
> ...!hplabs!hpfcla!allen_n

Has anyone tried using this with Professional Page? I'm editor of the local
user group newsletter, and at the moment, I do it on Pro Page (which I like
quite a bit). However, we currently have to go to an outside agency to actually
get access to a Postscript printer. If things go according to plan, we will
shortly have access to a HP Laserjet which we can use much more conveniently.
So the question is, do we get Pagestream (which seems to give very nice output
on the HP, but appears to be very buggy at the moment) or stick with
Pro Page and get PrintScript. I realise PrintScript would take forever to
process a typical 20 page newsletter, but I could live with this since it
only needs to be done once every two months or so.

Suggestions welcome.

[An aside to Eric Kennedy: Thanks for your email over the past weeks, in
answer to several questions of mine. I got the new C Ltd. 3.0 s/w, and
reformatted my hard drive, bringing the speed up to around 160K/second. All
my replies to you bounced unfortunately so I couldn't thank you before.]

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