Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!nosun!illian!sopwith!snoopy From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Host software alternatives to PS engines? Summary: is this available in source? Keywords: Postscript Emulation GoScript source Message-ID: <14@sopwith.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 17:38:19 GMT References:<887@skinner.nprdc.arpa> <902@skinner.nprdc.arpa> Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle) Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm Lines: 27 ||>For people with relatively modest volume printing requirements, it would seem ||>ideal to be able to buy a cheap printing engine, without PostScript support, ||>and do the PostScript to raster conversion in the host computer. Does anyone ||>know if there is any such product on the market, or anticipated to be? . . . ||makes a product called 'GoScript' for IBM PCs and clones. This is an ||entirely software-based Postscript-compatible interpreter that will ||output to many dot-matrix and laser printers, and a number of ||plotters. The program uses Bitstream's soft font packages, so adding ||fonts to the output should be simple. |System Requirements: |o IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible, or IBM PS/2, |GoScript is listed for $195.00; Sounds good, is there something available in source for those of us who use unix machines rather than ms-dosn't machines? (I just started reading this group, apologies if the answer has already been posted and I missed it. If so, could someone email me the article(s)?) _____ /_____\ Snoopy /_______\ |___| tektronix!tekecs!sopwith!snoopy |___| sun!nosun!illian!sopwith!snoopy