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PostScript break for xyW/NB users
- Subject: PostScript break for xyW/NB users
- From: "..." adpf@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 17:28:07 +0000 (GMT)
LaserGo is offering xyWrite and NotaBene users an exclusive sharp
discount on its DOS GoScript 32 software PostScript interpreter
*for a limited time*. Details at the NB site: Follow the
Welcome page "Printer Driver Alternative" link.
TTG expects the same information to be at early next week.
Why? The best solution I know to the dilemma new printers present to all
legacy apps is a software PostScript interpreter: Configure interpreter
for your new laser, inkjet, or dm printer (almost any), load xyWrite PS
driver, TYF, invoke PS interpreter from CMline, and join the pros.
PostScript is the global printing industry standard and you can use the
PDL on your printer, so whether xyWrite has a driver for your printer
is just one issue. Software PS also gives xyWrite 3 a graphical preview
and lets xyWrite 4 users willing to forego an *editable* preview shed
Bitstream fonts.
Longtime subscribers know (sorry) that I've recommended software PS
here often, and have mentioned GS32, which is stable, richly documented,
and supported by a responsive developer (unlike self-styled not-for-
the-faint-of-heart software PS freeware). I paid a pittance for GS
at a trade show years ago and assumed that LaserGo's rather staggering
list prices were negotiable. When a xylist subscriber disabused me
of that fanciful notion, I took the matter up with the developer.
This for-xyW/NB users-only discount (less than I paid for GoScript+GS32
upgrade, but for a short time only) was the outcome. TTG's and NB's
generous cooperation in informing users of the offer is a gesture
on the part of each developer to extend our options, not an implied
endorsement of GS32.
If PostScript is the mystery techology to you that it is to most wintel
users, you might take a look at the "old app/new printer blues" NAQ
(answers to never-asked xyWrite+PostScript questions) at the URL below.
PostScript uses Type 1 fonts, and you can find !T1_TNT, an xpl font
engine (hardware or software PS of course) for use with new Type 1 fonts,
at the same URL. !T1_TNT includes the PS NAQ. Code is xyW3, with data to
give a head start to anyone who wants to port it to xyW4. ... Ciao. --a
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