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- From: rr2b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Robert Andrew Ryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Printers
- Message-ID: <sezhmOG00Woi4dukwr@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 21:48:10 GMT
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- We are investigating having ATK print direct to Postscript, to relieve
- the dependence on troff/groff and psdit.
-
- I'm curious how many and what different Postscript interpreter versions
- are being used out there. Here we have one printer with interpreter
- version 38.0, and another reports 52.3 (Here the version is reported on
- the cover page, I'm not sure if that happens in general.)
-
- The biggest issues are Level 2 operators, and ISO-Latin-1 support.
- Apparently ISO-Latin-1 support appeared in interpreter version 47.0. In
- versions prior to this there are 3 characters outright missing and a
- number of others which would have to be constructed by composition of
- other characters.
-
- The following postscript code will print the interpreter version number
- in the lower left corner. If you use ATK printing (or would like to)
- and you can, please print this on your printer(s) and let me know what
- it says.
-
- Thanks for any info,
- -Rob Ryan
- Andrew Consortium
-
- %!
- /Helvetica findfont 20 scalefont setfont
- 100 100 moveto version show
-
-