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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 26 Apr 1999.
Re: overprinting ASCII on Laserjet?

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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From: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen)
Subject: Re: overprinting ASCII on Laserjet?
Date: 1999/04/26
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