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From: arasmith@mathcs.emory.edu (David Arasmith)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Ghostscript docs and fonts
Keywords: Ghostscript
Message-ID: <4964@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 90 04:38:36 GMT
References: <25cf4ac6.bec@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: arasmith@emory.UUCP (David Arasmith)
Organization: Math and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta GA
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In article <25cf4ac6.bec@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
>
>The other day I downloaded Ghostscript from  chyde.uwasa.fi.  What I think
>I was getting is an interpreter that takes PostScript input and outputs
>to a screen or dot matrix printer.
>
Correct me if I am wrong, someone, but I think Ghostscript is GNU's answer
to Adobe's Postscript.  It has been in development for some time.

There is an interpreter called Goscript that reads postscript files and sends
them to your (much cheaper) non-postscript printer (dot-matrix, laser, or
inkjet).

I was a little fuzzy on this initially as well (maybe I still am).

By the way, Goscript is NOT free.  Ghostscript, like all GNU stuff, is!


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