olsonr@acfcluster.nyu.edu (01/30/91)
Hello All Hmm...almost as quickly as people responded to my questions, people responded to my thank you note, complaining that I was hoarding information. To those people, I'm sorry....I thought the messages were also posted on the board for all the world to see, hear, and enjoy. Anyway, here is what I found out: You want visual PostScript? You got it. In the form of GhostScript. GhostScript apparently can be FTP'ed from prep.purdue.edu in the /pub directory. Apparently, (I have not FTP'ed it yet so I cannot confirm) it is available in Unix, as well as MS-DOS. I do not know how fast it is (Can somebody out there tell me what it's like on a 286 machine w/VGA?) but I'm sure on a Vax it's a screamer. Fonts? You got it. This FTP site has always been a favorite, but I did not know they carried PS fonts. cica.cica.indiana.edu in the pub/win3/fonts directory has 'em. Posters? I hope everybody got the idea that I was asking for a program that printed things in the tens of thousands of points. I recieved a program from one person and many references to the Blue Book from others. (I will post the program contributor's name later...I can't get to it right now...) I haven't compiled the program yet, but it does in fact look very promising. I will tell you of my results, . To be honest, I thought something would happen if I posted a thank you note, so I hope I have done something to make amends here... Ron olsonr@kramden.nyu.edu "And this is the cream of our computer crop here at ....University, a brand news Apple ][ with two disk drives..."
jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson ) (01/31/91)
: :Hello All . . . : :You got it. In the form of GhostScript. GhostScript apparently can :be FTP'ed from prep.purdue.edu in the /pub directory. Apparently, (I I was unable to connect to that address (whats the ip?). Ghostscript _is_ available at prep.ai.mit.edu /pub/gnu/ghostscript* ps. Does anyone know what change/improvement was made from 2.0 to 2.1.1 -- -george george@mech.seas.upenn.edu
cookc@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Chris Cook) (01/31/91)
>:You got it. In the form of GhostScript. GhostScript apparently can >:be FTP'ed from prep.purdue.edu in the /pub directory. Apparently, (I > >I was unable to connect to that address (whats the ip?). >Ghostscript _is_ available at prep.ai.mit.edu /pub/gnu/ghostscript* > What about by mail? We're not on the internet. Does anyone have the address of a server that will supply it. Got to go, having two wisdom teeth out this afternoon.....guuulp. Chris
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (02/05/91)
In article <1991Jan31.123041.28632@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk> cookc@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Chris Cook) writes:
GhostScript apparently can be FTP'ed from prep.purdue.edu in the
/pub directory.
(actually, it's prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/ghostscript*.)
What about by mail? We're not on the internet. Does anyone have
the address of a server that will supply it.
Use anonymous UUCP to osu-cis. Write to uucp@cis.ohio-state.edu for
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