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From: esf00@uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on Xerox 2700 laser-printers
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Date: 8 Feb 90 19:17:17 GMT
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In article <9002072153.AA21380@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> alex@grian.UUCP (Alex Pournelle) writes:
>
>                      I have one basic question: does anyone know how to
>make this thing useful to general human beings?  I'd like to publish my
>desktop from it, preferably from both PC and Mac.

Ummmmmm .... we've got one of those beasties banging away in the corner,
and its only got two and a half million prints on it.  The software is
wearing out, though.

In 1982 the only game in town was a [di]roff back end ["Xroff"] from Image
Networks (address available in the box ads in the back of _Un*x Today_).
I suspect that if you want to use soft fonts without any software hacking,
you're probably still in that boat.

I'd suggest tracking down the Ghostscript source -- it's possible to tell
the marking engine where (other than your hands, shirt, etc:-)) you
would like it to deposit toner.  I've got no good idea as to the scale of
the hack involved, but xroff seemed to be straighforward.
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