Re: overprinting ASCII on Laserjet?
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:04:12 -0500, Robert Wood (rob...@ionet.net) wrote: : posterity sake, these "works of computer art" will have to either be : converted to a new format or a method worked out to output them to the : general printer in use (which is now the laser). It should be trivial for someone who knows PostScript to write an ascii-to-ps converter. If your printer doesn't speak postscript, there's always ghostview. Yes, it does seem a bit like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer, but if that's what it takes.. No, I can't write postscript myself. I did learn a bit of it once, but didn't have the time nor the motivation to learn more back then. (Did you get my mail with the perl script? Did it help?) -- . _, .. j u s t. h o w l.i n g i n .t h e n.i g h t .. ._, . , )'' . /\_ . ' ,/\ . , ``( , _\__/ |__.'\._______,--;_'_`-.___,.______,/_,_`.__,-.__'__,/`-._,_| \____ ,_f_)\. Ilmari Karonen ilt...@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ /(_|_,.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,950692fbe9f3775e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen) Subject: Re: overprinting ASCII on Laserjet? Date: 1999/04/26 Message-ID: <7g2p7r$lpl$1...@tron.sci.fi>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 471217602 Distribution: world References: <371...@ionet.net> <372...@ionet.net> Organization: (dis)Order of the Holy Spoon (or whatever) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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