[comp.sys.amiga.tech] NEW PRODUCT: PostDriver, The PostScript printer driver

vinsci@gaston.soft.fi (Leonard Norrgard) (05/25/90)

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Soft Service today announced its PostDriver(tm) product, a PostScript(tm)
printer driver. Some information on the product is given below, contact
us at one of the addresses given for more information.

        Enjoy!

        -- Leonard Norrgard
        Soft Service, Inc.

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NEW PRODUCT RELEASE                                     May, 25th 1990
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Product name: PostDriver, the PostScript printer driver

Availability: June, 1990.
              Orders are processed on a first-come first-served basis.
              Order before June 7th 1990 and you will receive *free*
              air-mail shipping anywhere in the world!

Description:
        PostDriver, the PostScript printer driver, enables users of
        PostScript laser printers to use the printer with ALL of their
        software, including programs that do not by themselves support
        PostScript laser printers.

          PostDriver has full support for PostScript fonts and supports
        all applicable printer commands in addition to its excellent
        graphics output and support. The driver is fully compatible with
        Preferences and is therefore very easy to install. At last all
        users can treat their PostScript printers just like any other
        Amiga printers!

          PostDriver supports printers with different resolutions,
        different paper sizes etc. Naturally, it handles both monospaced
        and proportional fonts as well as all the different text
        styles (normal, underlined, bold, italics and bolditalics),
        super- and subscripts and so on. PostDriver also supports
        the entire Amiga character set.

          If you need high-quality graphics printing, then PostDriver is
        the answer. It gives you the choise of using either the Amiga
        printer.device graphics output, or, you can use the halftoning
        machinery built into the printer for higher quality output.
        While PostDriver enables you to use all graphics printer settings,
        you can also benefit from the additional settings in the
        PostDriver preferences tool to control the printing process.

Price:  PostDriver, complete with installation software and a small manual
        is priced at US$ 39. Airmail shipping to the USA is 5 US$, to
        Europe 3 US$ and to Australia 5 US$.
          Introduction offer: order before June 7th 1990 and receive
                              *free* air-mail shipping anywhere in the world!
          Courier delivery by DHL and TNT (please specify) is also available
        in most areas. Prices vary from area to area however, so exact prices
        cannot be given here. Most places in the US are 45$ by TNT, most
        places in Europe are 40$ by TNT, while courier delivery to most
        places in Australia is 55 US$ by TNT (Sydney is 45 US$).

Credit cards:
        We accept the Visa, MasterCard and EuroCard credit cards. We do not
        currently accept American Express.
          Credit card orders are also accepted by E-Mail and FAX, don't
        forget to include the expiration date of your credit card. See below
        for E-Mail address and fax number.

Bank Cheques:
        If you pay by bank cheque, add US$ 3 to the total (the cost of
        cashing the cheque). Use a Bank Certified Cheque, or the delivery
        will be delayed until the cheque has been cleared.
        Make cheques payable to:

                Soft Service, Inc.
                ElectroCity, 4th floor
                SF-20520 ABO
                Finland

Addresses:
        E-Mail addresses:
            Internet:   orders@soft.fi
            UUCP:       ...!uunet!soft.fi!orders
            BIX:        vinsci
            CompuServe: >internet: orders@soft.fi

        FAX: (international) +358-21-6375-729

        Traditional:
            Soft Service, Inc.
            ElectroCity, 4th floor
            SF-20520 ABO
            Finland

Trademarks:
        PostDriver is a trademark of Soft Service, Inc.
        PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) (05/26/90)

In article <0930.AA0930@gaston.soft.fi> vinsci@gaston.soft.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes:
:
:[Please forward this message to other networks, services and BBS systems]
:
:Soft Service today announced its PostDriver(tm) product, a PostScript(tm)
:printer driver. Some information on the product is given below, contact
:us at one of the addresses given for more information.
:
:        Enjoy!
:
:        -- Leonard Norrgard
:        Soft Service, Inc.

	How well does this support Postscript over the AmigaTalk AppleTalk
clone software? Does it support printing to devices other than PRT:, in
other words? I can use stuff like WordPerfect easily by printing to LSR:,
but many other word processors and paint programs don't easily support the
AmigaTalk software.

:Addresses:
:        E-Mail addresses:
:            Internet:   orders@soft.fi
:            UUCP:       ...!uunet!soft.fi!orders
:            BIX:        vinsci
:            CompuServe: :internet: orders@soft.fi
:
:        FAX: (international) +358-21-6375-729
:
:        Traditional:
:            Soft Service, Inc.
:            ElectroCity, 4th floor
:            SF-20520 ABO
:            Finland
:
:Trademarks:
:        PostDriver is a trademark of Soft Service, Inc.
:        PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.



     -Bill Seymour             ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!billsey
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vinsci@soft.fi (Leonard Norrgard) (05/28/90)

Bill Seymour (billsey@agora.uucp) writes:
>	How well does this support Postscript over the AmigaTalk AppleTalk
>clone software? Does it support printing to devices other than PRT:, in
>other words? I can use stuff like WordPerfect easily by printing to LSR:,
>but many other word processors and paint programs don't easily support the
>AmigaTalk software.

  It depends on how AmigaTalk has implemented printer support. I haven't seen
it, so I can't say for sure. However, assuming that LSR: uses the printer
device to process printer output then it should work OK. Since PostDriver is
a full Preferences printer driver, anything that supports preferences printers
works with PostDriver.
  If LSR: isn't using the Amiga printer device, you can still get the output
to AmigaTalk using the CMD utility on the Workbench disk and print to PRT:.
Just set the CMD output file to LSR: and print away.
  I'd like to check this with the makers of AmigaTalk, have you got an address
or phone number to them?

-- Leonard

agnus@amylnd.stgt.sub.org (Matthias Zepf) (05/31/90)

In article <1990May25.183356.6640@agora.uucp> billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) writes:
>In article <0930.AA0930@gaston.soft.fi> vinsci@gaston.soft.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes:
>:Soft Service today announced its PostDriver(tm) product, a PostScript(tm)
>:printer driver. Some information on the product is given below, contact
>:us at one of the addresses given for more information.

>	How well does this support Postscript over the AmigaTalk AppleTalk
>clone software? Does it support printing to devices other than PRT:, in
>other words? I can use stuff like WordPerfect easily by printing to LSR:,
>but many other word processors and paint programs don't easily support the
>AmigaTalk software.

Could you please post information about this AppleTalk clone software?
Where can I get it? What is it? Gives it a AppleTalk interface to my
Amiga? To work in an AppleTalk network? What is the price of it?

Greetings, Matthias


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