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
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||>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)?)

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