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Message no. 1
From: The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU>
Subject: Postscript
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 04:09:11 -0500
Postscript is SUCH a beautiful sight. . .
Maybe it's more legible on acid. . .

J Roberson
Message no. 2
From: Wyll Volstorf <wvolstor@*****.LEESUMMIT.K12.MO.US>
Subject: Re: Post Script
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 14:26:08 -0600
I was wondering if someone could help me. I got these neato PS files
and a regular Hewlett Pakerd 500DeskJet (InkJet) Printer that doen't know what
PS is. Is there a DOS program that can "see" PS and print it out
properly??? Reply ASAP please to either me, or the list.

Wyll Volstorf
Message no. 3
From: What's this button do? <GRAFF85@********.CORTLAND.EDU>
Subject: Re: Post Script
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 15:59:51 -0400
> I was wondering if someone could help me. I got these neato PS files
>and a regular Hewlett Pakerd 500DeskJet (InkJet) Printer that doen't know what
> PS is. Is there a DOS program that can "see" PS and print it out
>properly??? Reply ASAP please to either me, or the list.
>
>Wyll Volstorf

Have you been paying attention to the last week of comments????

Recap
Ghost Script for dos (or what ever if you use the source code) v2.61
can be gotten from oak.oakland.edu or any other site (just run archie on
gs261???.zip) that will find sites for ya

Fonts for Ghost Script (New Item!!)

ftp.iro.umontreal.ca
/lude-iro/ghostscript-2.6.1/run/iro/sol2.2_sparc/lib/ghostscript/fonts/

get _all_ the .gsf files (use asii transfer!!!!)

read the small package of instructions and use gs??? -? (or h I think) for more
help

--Dave Graff
Net surfer extrordinaire!

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Message no. 4
From: ewok slayer <jclegg@******.FSC.MASS.EDU>
Subject: postscript
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 01:18:13 EST
OK. I have question for you all. Just what is postscript and why
do I need Goshscript and a ton of fonts to use it. Is postscript a Mac
thing or something? Why is postscript so popular?

* Darkstar

i am just full of questions
Message no. 5
From: What's this button do? <GRAFF85@********.CORTLAND.EDU>
Subject: Re: postscript
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 10:12:16 -0400
> OK. I have question for you all. Just what is postscript and why
>do I need Goshscript and a ton of fonts to use it. Is postscript a Mac
>thing or something? Why is postscript so popular?
>
> * Darkstar
>
>i am just full of questions

PostScript is a publishing "language" that allows you to use drawings, text and
a myriad (oooh neat word!!:) of other functions for page layout. Ghost Script
is a portable interpreter for those of us who don't have the equipment much
less the cash to buy the equipment for printing these things. The fonts allow
a better interpretation of the files...all postscript (.ps) files are are
_very_ large ascii text files with lines of "source" code that Ghost Script or
your postscript printer interpret into a "graphic" format that is far superior
to many word processors...unfortunately the cost of the programs to write .ps
files are enormous at current....

--Dave

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Message no. 6
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@***.GWU.EDU>
Subject: Re: postscript
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 14:23:44 -0500
Rob, you think you orta add this to the FAQ?



On Wed, 9 Feb 1994, ewok slayer wrote:

> OK. I have question for you all. Just what is postscript and why
> do I need Goshscript and a ton of fonts to use it. Is postscript a Mac
> thing or something? Why is postscript so popular?
>
> * Darkstar
>
> i am just full of questions
Message no. 7
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Postscript
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 18:15:34 -0600
If you think the Postscript information needs to go into the FAQ, could
somoen please take some time to write up somthine and mail it to me.

Thanks.

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Message no. 8
From: Michael Garoni <Michael_Garoni@****.INTERSOLV.COM>
Subject: Re: postscript
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 09:37:00 LCL
Postscript was originally a type of printer put out by someone who I don't know.
The term post script now refers to the printer control language that was
invented by these people, much as PCL5 was invented by Hewlett Packard.

It was designed to tell a laser printer how to format a document correctly, and
allowed the user to print the info to a file that could later just be copied to
a postscript printer, again like PCL5. If your printer does not understand post
script, then you will need a piece of software on your PC that can translate the
formatting commands. If your printer does understand Postscript, then it
already has the software built in.

Postscript is now owned by Adobe, and they were probably the guys that invented
it.

Sorry for being long winded, but I work as a Technical Support Rep.

-Obi Wan
Message no. 9
From: John Stawarz aka Chaos Manager <jstawarz@******.GMU.EDU>
Subject: PostScript
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 20:15:39 -0400
Anybody out there know of a utility or someother method to convert from
PostScript level 2 to PostScript level 1? The guys in the lab are
getting tired of us using the laser printers in the lab (the only level
2's available...) They don't mind us using the general level one
though (that and it'll actually print on both sides of the page...8)

So, anybody have one? Or know where I could get my grubby little
mitts on one?
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Message no. 10
From: "J. Long" <LONG2469@********.BITNET>
Subject: Postscript
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 15:15:20 -0500
Date sent: 16-MAY-1994 15:13:28

Chummers:

I hate to bring this subject up again, but I lost all of my
postscript print out program disks, and can't seem to remember where the
FTP site with the proper files is. Could one of you help me out here??
I am in desperate Need of a ghostscript file.

Thanks,
_______________________________________________________________________________
Jamison J. Long (AKA Neuromancer, Flag Admiral, Jamie) [{Founder T.E.R.R.A}]
LONG2469@******.CC.PLATTSBURGH.EDU or LONG2469@********.bitnet

Alia iacta est. (The Die is Cast.) -Iulius Caesar, upon crossing the Rubicon.
{Also the Motto of T.E.R.R.A. [The Embry-Riddle Roleplaying Assoc.]}
Message no. 11
From: Jai Tao <jdfalk@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Postscript
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 01:38:35 -0400
[Replying publicly in order to enlighten new listmembers.]

On Mon, 16 May 1994, J. Long wrote:

> I hate to bring this subject up again, but I lost all of my
> postscript print out program disks, and can't seem to remember where the
> FTP site with the proper files is. Could one of you help me out here??
> I am in desperate Need of a ghostscript file.

Ghostscript for DOS or Microsoft Windoze 3.x is avaliable from my
FTP site, 'cais.com', in the directory '/usr/jdfalk/gs'. Most of the
avaliable fonts are there as well, in two files.
For those who don't know, Ghostscript is a Postscript interpreter
for people without Postscript software. Postscript is a complicated and
IMHO unweildy (but, nevertheless, the best) printer language, which allows
any program to print to any high-quality printer. It does more than that,
of course, but that's the basics of it.
If you have any trouble accessing the files in my site, contact
me, <jdfalk@****.com>. If you don't know how to use FTP, contact your
systems' support people -- that's their job.

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