DBG@SLACVM.BITNET (02/09/88)
Date: 8 February 1988, 11:33:45 PST From: DBG at SLACVM To: INFO-POSTSCRIPT at ROCKY.STANFORD.EDU Subject: re: IDEA! a text formatter in PostScript re: Article <8802060615.AA20361@M66-080-5.MIT.EDU> mbparker@ATHENA.MIT.EDU There is a product for the Macintosh, called JustText, which is approximately a text formatter using PostScript directly. It is intended for typesetting applications where professionals want more precise control than you get with applications like PageMaker or ReadySetGo. I have used the program a lot as an interactive PostScript downloader and debugging environment with the LaserWriter Plus from a Mac, but I've never tried to use it for its intended purpose, and don't know how satisfactory it is for that. The vendor is Knowledge Engineering, (212)473-0095, and locally it sells for $156, list $195. I expect to move my PostScript debugging over to LaserTalk, as that is a more comprehensive debugging environment, showing stacks etc as well as actual bits produced. I've used it some already, seems to work pretty well.