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- From: slbfn@cc.usu.edu
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- Subject: Re: Postscript support in OS , means what ??????????
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.103730.58888@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 10:37:29 MDT
- References: <mac1.716512668@Ra.MsState.Edu> <1992Sep15.063633.26148@news.iastate.edu> <35118@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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- Organization: Utah State University
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- In article <35118@cbmvax.commodore.com>, ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals) writes:
- > Someone asks a simple question about the new C= PostScript printer driver.
- > To which a certain iastate net.personality responds, with his customary
- > deft insight:
- >
- > [...]
- >
- >>...The PS driver will be useless for you if you do not own a PS
- >>printer. ...
- >
- > Unless of course you have *access* to a PostScript printer, in which case
- > redirecting the PS output to a file would prove rather handy.
-
- And from there you can use a PD utility to convert the PostScript file
- and print it on a "normal" printer and better quality than printing to
- it directly.
-
- > But this is clearly an unsatisfactory solution. If Commodore had any
- > sense at all, they would include a PostScript *printer* with every A4000.
- > When will we learn?
-
- Yah, Commodore. All you people are SO *STUPID* ! May I suggest a really
- neat an expensive PostScript color-laser typsetting machine?
-
- Greetings,
-
- Travis Carter
- slbfn@cc.usu.edu
-
- >>| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- >>--------------------------------------------------
- >
- > --
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Ross Hippely: Technical Writer
- > employed by, not speaking for: Commodore Business Machines Inc.
-