xiaofei@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Xiaofei Wang) (04/03/91)
Dear TeX users who use TeX on mados machine and HP Laser Jet for output, It is always a concern for me as to print PostScript file from HP Laser Jet without buying a PostScript Cartridge since it is expensive. The good news is the ghostscript 2.1.1 [ftp'able from prep.ai.mit.edu under ./pub/gnu/ghostscript*] already supports HP Laser Jet. However it requires that one has Turbo C 2.0 or above as well as an assembler and the knowledge of how to do it to make the binary file[s]. I am not going to be able to do this in near future. If someone can send me a binary file [uuencode/btoa], I would appreciate it. I have .c, .h, .ps files in C:\ghost and fonts in c:\ghost\fonts and HP LJ 3 on lpt1 if this is relevent.
royster@UNCCVAX.UNCC.EDU (David Royster) (04/04/91)
The public domain program ghostscript available for anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu has an msdos executable in the file. ghostscript-2.1msdos.exe 249582 (executable for MS-DOS, rename to gs.exe when downloaded) Give it a try.
xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) (04/05/91)
royster@UNCCVAX.UNCC.EDU (David Royster) writes:
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* The public domain program ghostscript available for anonymous ftp from
* prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu has an msdos executable in the file.
*
* ghostscript-2.1msdos.exe 249582
* (executable for MS-DOS, rename to gs.exe when downloaded)
The binary file is for displaying postscript on the terminal.
Karl@cs.umb.edu told me that ghostscript supports HP Laser Jet
as one of the standard devices [others: epson, Desk Jet ...]
But one has to compile the sources. It requires TURBO C 2.0
or later and Turbo Assembler or MS Assembler.
I am trying to get the files compiled.
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xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!xiaofei / v118raqa@ubvms.bitnetgar@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Greg Restall) (04/11/91)
Just on this topic, (which is probably not immediately relevant to comp.text.tex) Has anyone ported Ghostscriprt to the Mac? That would be quite interesting.... Does any brave soul wish to try? Greg Restall.