[comp.windows.news] XNeWs as a Postscript -> Raster filter?

km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) (09/28/89)

Is it possible to use xnews as a postscript -> raster
file filter, to drive dot matrix printers? I'm not
concerned about the details of putting the raster file
in the best format for feeding the printer, but would
need to vary the pixel geometry appropriately for different
printers.

Incidentally, besides the technical issue their could be
a legal issue. NeXT apparently can't allow their display
postscript software to be used in this way because of
an agreement with Adobe.
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jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) (09/28/89)

Ken Mandelberg <km@mathcs.emory.edu> writes:

	Is it possible to use xnews as a postscript -> raster file
	filter, to drive dot matrix printers?

A new application that comes with xnews is called pageview.  It is a
postscript previewer that can optionally create raster output snapshots
of a page.  I presume you could do it this way ...

Do you have a filter for, say, and Epson or an ImageWriter to print
raster files?

/jordan