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From: lai@batcave.UUCP (Henry Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: ASCII -> Postscript Filter
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Date: 14 Dec 89 03:44:30 GMT
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If you're not looking for anything too fancy, you can use the routines
given in the "green" book. Here is a simple one (if I remember it
correctly) that justs prints the text as is, without any modifications,
kerning, etc.

%!
/s 256 string def
/printloop {
	{currentfile cvlit s readline not 
	{exit}if
	show currentpoint exch pop 12 sub dup 36 le 
	{pop copypage erasepage 0 720 moveto} {0 exch moveto}ifelse
	}loop 
	showpage
}bind def

/Courier findfont 12 scalefont setfont
0 720 moveto printloop % this should be followed by the ASCII text

You should send this to your printer and then send your text file. A ctrl-D
signals end of job to the printer.

(If I remember, the example in the "green" book uses =string instead of
the string I declared. =string is only holds 128 characters.)
-- 
Henry Lai      lai%batcave@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
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