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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Using a postscript printer for previewing?
Summary: using ps printer
Message-ID: <17448@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 15 Dec 89 14:01:41 GMT
References: <POLLACK.89Dec4133944@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu> <226@dino.cs.iastate.edu>
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In article <226@dino.cs.iastate.edu>, shaver@cs.iastate.edu (Dave Shaver) writes:
> pollack@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jordan B Pollack) writes:
> 
> >Imagine being able to get
> >bitmaps for proprietary fonts back to the host!  So I guess its
> >probably impossible without a lot of money.
> 
> Not much money at all.  8-)  Look at Don Lancaster's "Ask the Guru"
> column in the February 1989 issue of Computer Shopper.  He shows how to
> do exactly what you're talking about.
> 
> /\  Dave Shaver  -=*=-  CS Systems Support Group, Iowa State University
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> 		...In stereo where available...

Yes, provided you have the version of the printer with a DISK.  Otherwise
it can't be done.  It depends on the grabbing of cached images off the hard
disk.  NOTE:  the hard disk system is really buggy, so if you have one, be
careful.

cheers

Woody