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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:39:08 MST
- From: haymoree@wyoming.et.byu.edu (Ed Haymore)
- Subject: Re: Postscript files to dot matrix printers ?
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- Colin Johnson (colinj@engin.umich.edu) wrote:
- | In article <1993Jan28.010051.18902@netcom.com> fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
- | >Robert_Magee@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Magee) writes:
- | >
- | >>I belive there is a PD software called Go Script which does a creditable job
- | >>of printing postscript files to dot matrix printers.
- | >
- | >The name of the utility is GhostScript, and it can be found at Simtel-20
- | >in the PD1:<MSDOS.POSTSCRIPT> directory, under the filenames of GS252*.*
- | >and 25*.*. Yes, there are a lot of files.
- | >
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- | To the best of my knowledge ghostscript will not print but it will
- | allow you to view just about any postscript file.
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- Prints great on my 9-pin Panasonic. Looks even better on a 24-pin
- Panasonic. (And better still on my roommate's DeskJet 500!)
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- Ed Haymore
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