poc@mhuxu.UUCP (Paul O'Connor) (01/04/89)
A product called "GoScript" is being advertised in PC magazines. Sold by LaserGo, Inc., it purports to be a PostScript interpreter for the PC that can output to dotmatrix and laser printers. Anybody have any information or experience with this? Paul O'Connor AT&T Bell Labs Reading, PA mhuxu!poc
mms%sordid@Sun.COM (Michael Silverstein) (01/05/89)
In article <8904@mhuxu.UUCP> poc@mhuxu.UUCP (Paul O'Connor) writes: >*> >*> >*> A product called "GoScript" is being advertised in PC >*> magazines. Sold by LaserGo, Inc., it purports to be a PostScript >*> interpreter for the PC that can output to dotmatrix and laser >*> printers. Anybody have any information or experience with this? >*> >*> Paul O'Connor >*> AT&T Bell Labs >*> Reading, PA >*> mhuxu!poc I have this product and have used it successfully to print Postscript output from various desktop publishers on my Epson LQ. The results are quite acceptable for a dot matrix printer; do not delude yourself into thinking that you will get laser quality on the cheap. The most serious drawback is the speed (or lack thereof). On my 286 machine, Norton SI rated at 11.5 with a 39 msec disk, an average page takes 40 minutes to print (no typo: I said FORTY minutes per page). Reason: the product implements virtual memory on the disk to construct the bitmap. The maker includes a few demo programs which run much faster than this, but they are contrived. If you do decide to buy it, here's a couple of tips regarding use with an LQ printer like mine: 1. Use the 360x360 mode rather than 360x180, especially if you have half tone graphics. The quality is noticeably better, and the additional time is only about 5 minutes per page. For some reason, the manual implies that there's a larger time penalty with 360x360. 2. Make sure that the paper feed to the printer is completely free and smooth. Any binding or constriction causes raster lines to appear. Even feeding from a tightly packed fanfold stack can cause this. *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-*-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=* | /\/\ike Silverstein | This can't be deja vous. Things are more like | | sun!mms -or- mms@sun.com | they are now than they've ever been before! | *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-*-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*
anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson, MACC) (01/05/89)
In article <83724@sun.uucp>, mms%sordid@Sun.COM (Michael Silverstein) writes... ]In article <8904@mhuxu.UUCP> poc@mhuxu.UUCP (Paul O'Connor) writes: ]>*> ]>*> ]>*> A product called "GoScript" is being advertised in PC ]>*> magazines. Sold by LaserGo, Inc., it purports to be a PostScript ]>*> interpreter for the PC that can output to dotmatrix and laser ]>*> printers. ]I have this product and have used it successfully to print Postscript ]output from various desktop publishers on my Epson LQ. Is there a driver for Toshiba 321 (24-pin 360x360)? ]The most serious drawback is the speed (or lack thereof). On my 286 ]machine, Norton SI rated at 11.5 with a 39 msec disk, an average page ]takes 40 minutes to print (no typo: I said FORTY minutes per page). ]Reason: the product implements virtual memory on the disk to construct ]the bitmap. Would it work at all with RAM-disk, I wonder? How much disk space does it chew up? ==Jess Anderson===Academic Computing Center=====Univ. Wisconsin-Madison===== | Work: Rm. 2160, 1210 West Dayton St., Madison WI 53706, Ph. 608/263-6988 | | Home: 2838 Stevens St., 53705, 608/238-4833 BITNET: anderson@wiscmacc | ==ARPA: anderson@macc.wisc.edu========UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson==
bunda@cs.utexas.edu (John Bunda) (01/07/89)
I haven't tried it, but Ghostscript (available from the Free Software Foundation, anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu) is a PC postscript clone that you might want to investigate... -John -- ................................... John Bunda UT CS Dept. bunda@cs.utexas.edu Austin, Texas
mrh@camcon.co.uk (Mark Hughes) (01/16/89)
poc@mhuxu.UUCP (Paul O'Connor) writes: > A product called "GoScript" is being advertised... >... Anybody have any information or experience with this? Only second hand. A colleague used it recently to provide a route between Postscript and a general purpose raster image format. He was favourably impressed, and, I think found only one relatively obscure Postscript feature that it didn't cope with. (Sorry can't remember what). I would be a bit wary though, the promotional literature was out of step with the product we received (v1.something), and was obviously in a state of flux. It accepts Postscript input and sends bit image data directly to an output port, i.e. it uses the bit-image graphics facilities of the printer, whatever other features the printer may have. (My colleague had to use a utility to intercept the port output so that he could reformat it as required). -- ------------------- <mrh@camcon.co.uk> or <...!mcvax!ukc!idec!camcon!mrh> | Mark Hughes | Tel: +44 (0) 223 420024 Cambridge Consultants Ltd. |(Compware . CCL) | Tlx: 931 211 0193 (KZ G) The Science Park, Milton Road, ------------------- BT Gold: 72:MAG70076 Cambridge UK. (Own opinions etc.)
tim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Timothy L. Kay) (01/19/89)
The Free Software Foundation has a PostScript clone called GhostScript which they are giving away. (It is free for those with access to the ARPAnet, and for a distribution fee if they to send you a tape.) I know nothing about it. Perhaps somebody wants to port it to the PC. Tim
smithj@marlin.NOSC.MIL (James Smith) (01/20/89)
The one feature _not_ supported by GoScript is the Postscript
'setscreen' command.
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UUCP: ...nosc!marlin!smithj +-----------------------------------+nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (01/20/89)
In article <9147@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Timothy L. Kay) writes:
The Free Software Foundation has a PostScript clone called GhostScript
which they are giving away. (It is free for those with access to the
ARPAnet, and for a distribution fee if they to send you a tape.) I
know nothing about it. Perhaps somebody wants to port it to the PC.
It already runs under MS-DOS driving the EGA. Peter L. Deutsch (yes, that
Peter L. Deutsch) wrote it using Turbo C 1.5. It doesn't compile under TC 2.0
because Borland changed the size of the difference between two far pointers
from an int to a long.
He has a really cute trick for compiling under Unix and MS-LOSS. Take a look
at the makefile to see it. It goes like this:
(DOS)
OBJ = obj
EXE = .exe
(Unix)
OBJ = o
EXE =
Try to guess what he does with these definitions.
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Christmas present of a whale "adoption" certificate. Bless her liberal heart.lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Lee Kolakowski) (01/20/89)
>It already runs under MS-DOS driving the EGA. Peter L. Deutsch (yes, that >Peter L. Deutsch) wrote it using Turbo C 1.5. It doesn't compile under TC 2.0 >because Borland changed the size of the difference between two far pointers >from an int to a long. Perhaps the executables could be made available on some machine for ftp access. I can't get the thing to compile. -- Frank Kolakowski ____________________________________________________________________________ |lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu || Lee F. Kolakowski | |kolakowski@mscf.med.upenn. || Univ. of Penna. | |c/o jes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu || Dept of Chemistry | |kolakowski%c.chem.upenn.edu@relay.upenn.edu || 231 South 34th St. | |kolakowski%d.chem.upenn.edu@relay.upenn.edu || Phila, PA 19104 | |bcooperman.kolakowski@bionet-20.arpa ||--------------------------| |AT&T: 1-215-898-2927 || One-Liner Here! | =============================================================================
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (01/21/89)
>>The Free Software Foundation has a PostScript clone called GhostScript >>which they are giving away. (It is free for those with access to the >>ARPAnet, and for a distribution fee if they to send you a tape.) >It already runs under MS-DOS driving the EGA. Peter L. Deutsch (yes, that >Peter L. Deutsch) wrote it using Turbo C 1.5. Oops! I meant L. Peter Deutsch. For those who have asked and/or wondered, ghostscript.tar.Z is on prep.ai.mit.edu in the usual place, and on nisc.nyser.net in pub/gnu. The executable, compiled with TC 1.5 with floating point emulation, is on sun.soe.clarkson.edu in pub/pc as gs.exe. All via FTP, of course. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) "I saved the whales!" - Rebecca L. Nelson, 3.5 years old, on receiving her Christmas present of a whale "adoption" certificate. Bless her liberal heart.
pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) (01/24/89)
Is there any way to print a screen to a PostScript printer? Thanks.
Pete
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