c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Walter C3arlip) (01/25/90)
The Macintosh store across the street just got in a new product: MacRip. Allegedly this package takes postscript files and prints them on an assortment of quickdraw printers (deskwriters, plp's, imagewriters, laserwriter SCs, etc.) as well as previewing on screen. For a list price of $150.00, this sounds like a wonderful product. I tried it, and had great success with the screen previews, and encountered some flakyness with printing on various engines. Since I was using the mac in the store (with an accellerator and a bunch of inits--basically a complicated, and unknown configuration) I don't really want to make a judgement. Has anyone else tried this or its more expensive competition (Freedom of the Press)? Lets post some interesting reviews! --Walter _____________________________________________________________________________ Walter C3arlip c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (the "3" is silent) c3ar%zaphod@UCHIMVS1.bitnet _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Walter C3arlip c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (the "3" is silent) c3ar%zaphod@UCHIMVS1.bitnet _____________________________________________________________________________
fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) (01/25/90)
I'm presently coding up a Postscript interpreter for my own use, also as a hacking exercize (I do computational learning theory all day, and a bit of programming gives my neurons a chance to stretch). It will do anti-aliasing on a grey-scale screen, so it should provide a nice looking previewer, as well as a way to (perhaps slowly) print Postscript files on non-Postscript printers. My question is: How many people out there would pay a $20 shareware fee for this product? Furthermore, how many of you would like to provide printer interfaces for it? We could make fee-sharing arrangements; alternatively, the drivers could be posted separately as code resources for editing into the RIP. Postscript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Inc. Since the Adobe fonts are copyrighted by Adobe, they of course cannot be included with the program and must be obtained from licensed sources. Mark Fulk fulk@cs.rochester.edu