[comp.sys.atari.st] Atari-Postscript ?

mc3i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Martin Costabel) (02/21/89)

The following is a quote from the latest ('89 #9) TeXhax issue:

>\section{Lucida}
>
>In December 1988 Chuck Bigelow informed me that:
>
>\begin{quotation}
>Atari is soon (January 1989) bundling Lucida text fonts with its
>PostScript clone upgrade for its laser printer, the SLM 804. The
>Lucida fonts include the \TeX\ text character set. The Lucida
>math fonts will also be available for Atari systems, but from the
>Imagen Corp., later in 1989.  Also, QMS-Imagen are bundling
>Lucida fonts in the same character set with a software PostScript
>clone "UltraScript PC" for IBM PC's and various printers. The
>Lucida \TeX\ math fonts will also be available from Imagen for
>that system.
>\end{quotation}
>
>\end{document}
>
>
>Dominik Wujastyk,          |                 Janet: wujastyk@uk.ac.ucl.euclid

Well, January 1989 is over. Is there anyone out there who has real info about
this "Postscript clone upgrade"?

--Martin Costabel

hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (02/21/89)

If worse comes to worse there's always the Free Software Foundation's
GhostScript package. It seems to have been written for MSDOS, but I was
playing with it for a little bit on a Sun. (Pretty buggy right now, but
it handled some complex demos pretty well.)
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