medmarkd@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Mark Deziel) (09/26/90)
Has anyone used Tscript or Ultrascript? Any info about these low cost postscript interperters (I can't afford Freedom of the Press!!!) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mark =
hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen) (09/27/90)
In article <37619@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> medmarkd@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes: >Has anyone used Tscript or Ultrascript? Any info about these >low cost postscript interperters (I can't afford Freedom of the >Press!!!) would be greatly appreciated. I've seen and briefly used TScript and Freedom of Press (no the in the name). QMS kept dragging their feet about sending me a copy of UltraScript, saying it wasn't shipping yet. Brief comment: TScript is slow and somewhat buggy. FOP is expensive, but it does the best job (the latest release, 3.0, supports many B&W printers like the Apple & GCC QuickDraw lasers - the previous versions did not). From a recent roundup in the latest (09/25/90) MacWEEK, I got the impression that the author didn't like UltraScript, because it wasn't compatible with Suitcase II or ATM (?). I can't verify that statement, though. Grab a copy of the article, if you can... Robert
norman@d.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham) (09/27/90)
From article <1990Sep27.050530.7457@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, by hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen): > In article <37619@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> medmarkd@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes: >>Has anyone used Tscript or Ultrascript? Any info about these >>low cost postscript interperters (I can't afford Freedom of the >>Press!!!) would be greatly appreciated. > > From a recent roundup in the latest (09/25/90) MacWEEK, I got the impression > that the author didn't like UltraScript, because it wasn't compatible > with Suitcase II or ATM (?). [...] Speaking of compatibility with ATM, is anyone out there working on a PostScript clone that uses ATM as its font rasterizer? It seems to make sense to me, given that the font rasterizer is one of the most difficult parts of a PostScript clone. For that matter, why wouldn't a PS-clone use ATM as its font rasterizer? ATM is cheap, you're guaranteed compatibility with Type 1 faces, and you can leverage you product off Adobe's work. --Norm -- Norman Graham <norman@a.cs.okstate.edu> {cbosgd,rutgers}!okstate!norman The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the state of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, OSU's Department of Computer Science, or of the writer himself.
hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer) (09/28/90)
If there are anybody out there who is bored, then you may consider to port the GNU GhostScript 2.0 which is a PostScript converter that can be fitted to work with all output devices. It works on UNIX and PC machines, so it should also be possible to let it work on the Macintosh. The port is a bigger project though. -- ******************************************************* Povl H. Pedersen hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu HP48sx archive maintainer