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List:       hylafax
Subject:    Re: Embed postscript in ascii document
From:       Sam Leffler <sam () hyla ! chez ! sgi ! com>
Date:       1996-04-30 21:21:01
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    To:  Malcolm Gillies <malcolm@connect.com.au>
    Subject:  Re: Embed postscript in ascii document 
    Cc:  flexfax@sgi.engr.sgi.com
    Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 09:22:32 EDT
    From:  robk@pulse-sys.com (Robert Klein)

    
    >PostScript is a general purpose programming language, not just a fixed 
graphics
    >format. As a result, transforming existing PostScript code is a 
non-trivial
    >task.
    
    I tore apart textfmt.c++ to build a library of routines to put postscript
    formatting in the output of my web to fax gateway.  So far I've just 
created 
    functions like:
    
    ps_header();
    ps_trailer();
    ps_font (char *fnt, char *size);
    
    BTW: do you know of any reference manuals on the postscript progamming 
language?
    Thanks,
    
In the v4.0 code I created a C++ class to do all the formatting and
text->PS conversion work that textfmt does.  textfmt then becomes a
simple client of the code.  Likewise faxmail uses the code and it may
possibly be used some other places before I'm done.

        Sam

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