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               Web Links to PostScript Sites 



 
 Web  Sites: 
 

   Adobe System's Adobe.com
                 Premier PostScript home includes free Acrobat and Page Mill
                 software, product details, developer's info, much more.

   Hewlett Packard at www.hp.com
                 The largest supplier of PostScript speaking printers. Check their
                 5M+ and 5SiMX in particular for Book-on-demand production.

   Peter Deutsch's Ghostscript
                 Ghostscript is a freeware Display PostScript clone that offers on-screen
                 displays on Mac and PC platforms. Includes PostScript site links. 

   Ghostscript font archive at Warix
                Archive contains individual downloadable fonts in the .PFB, .PFM, and
                AFM formats needed by ATM. Also a useful substitute Palatino source.

   Answers to PostScript questions from comp.lang.postscript
                 The FAQ page from the leading PostScript newsgroup. General,
                 printers, formats, fonts, books, programming, level II, more.

   PostScript and Ghostscript FAQ's from Silicon Valley
                Nice collection of Internet Resources for PostScript and Ghostscript.
                FAQ's Utilities, toys, printing, programming, fonts, other resources.

   Acquired Knowledge's Download Mechanic
                 The Download Mechanic is a full featured PostScript downloader .
                 It is especially useful with PostScript-as-Language applications.

   PostScript video applications at Videonics.com
                 The PowerScript 1000 is one of the first PostScript speaking
                 video character generators. Including alpha transparency!

   PostScript on screen editing from Enfocus Systems
                 The Tailor is a Mac-based on-screen editor that lets you ral time
                and visually mainipulate and resave .eps files. Illustrator compatible.

   Acrobat support from Emerge
                 Large collection of PDF support products. Commercial, shareware,
                 and freeware. Includes Gymnast shareware for text to PDF conversion.. 

   Test or use Acrobat Distiller at Internet Distiller
                 Use Acrobat Distiller at no charge with this online service. Following their
                 instructions, you send them a .PS file and they send you back a .PDF file.

   Convert oddball file formats with Image Alchemy
                 Free online software demo does single file conversion of most any
                 graphics file to or from PostScript .EPS or Acrobat .PDF formats. 

   Multimedia Resources from Maricopa Community Colleges
                 Free Has several dozen links to useful font resources, general multimedia
                 info, typographic layout info. Uneven but useful.

Newsgroups & Newsletters: 

 

   A PostScript newsgroup at comp.lang.postscript
                 The leading PostScript Usenet newsgroup. Strong international
                 interests combined with heavy Ghostscript coverage.

   An Acrobat newsgroup at comp.text.pdf
                 A Fairly active newsletter on Adobe Acrobat and .PDF files
                 in general. Tends to be heavy into UNIX.

   An expanded Newsgroup listing NEWSLIST.HTML
                 An "expanded" and hot linked (!) listing of some 10,000 Usenet
                 Newsgroups as of April 1997. Easily searched on or off line.

                 And includes these probable candidates...

alt.binaries.fonts
alt.comp.periphs.scanner
comp.fonts
comp.graphics.algorithms
comp.lang.postscript
comp.laser-printers
comp.periphs.printers
comp.periphs.scanners
comp.publish.cdrom.hardware
comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia
comp.publish.cdrom.software
comp.publish.electronic.developer
comp.publish.electronic.end-user
comp.publish.electronic.misc
comp.publish.prepress
comp.text.pdf
fido7.dtp.fonts
microsoft.public.win95.printingfontsvideo
microsoft.public.word.printingfonts


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