Screen fonts for…
10-Mar-90 08:45:23
Sb: #30402-Screen fonts for…
Fm: Ray Lewis 76057,467
To: Jamie Robertson 70007,1322
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postscript command file, and to tell its particular printing engine what to
do. A 300 dpi laser printer will print at 300 dpi. The same file fed into
a 2400 dpi Linotype will print at 2400 dpi.
On the Amiga, the closest thing we have to a psotscript "driver" is a
commercial product called, I believe, PixelScript. It takes a postscript
file from any source, reads it and interprets it IN YOUR AMIGA, and then
uses the Amiga's printer drivers to output to your particulat printer. If
you have a postscript printer, you don't need PixelScript.
If, otoh, you are looking for something that will take normal text files
and convert them into postscript code so they will print out on your
postscript printer, then you need ProWrite and ProScript (I think I got
those names correct — check over in Amiga vendor. One of the suppliers
there handles these programs). ProWrite is a wordprocessor. ProScript is
a companion program which takes ProWrite files, and translates them into
postscript files so they can be output on a postscript printer.
Does any of this make sense? If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask.
Ray Lewis