----- Original Message ----- From: "Tarquin Mills"
Subject: Re: [ql-users] oRSAM 2004
Not in Tony
Firshman's pictures there was a ICL OPD exhibit, the QLers missed this because they stayed in the QL village.
Not quite true. Some of us did put on our pith helmets and venture into foreign territory. I was interested to see the ICL OPD as I had never seen one before. I think one lesson that can be drawn from the show is that the QL has continued to develop and improve more than other retro-computers have.
I was disappointed
by the turnout of QL users from East Anglia, Greater London and surrounding areas.
This is more or less what I was expecting given the poor average attendance at more established venues such as Hove, Byfleet, London and Manchester. Good that you did not try to run a pure "QL" show.
As to the printer problem I have ported epsonps (Epson to Postscript converter) that Malcolm Lear suggested. I have used on my Q60 to:
Xchange -> EpsonPs -> Ghostscript -> PAR -> Printer
It produced the same output as:
Xchange -> PAR -> Printer
Ghostscript is hard to setup, in process I ported a file spliter and joiner, all three programs are on the ACCUS website. Now I need to find a Postscipt downloader i.e. for:
Xchange -> EpsonPs -> downloader -> Printer
and the source to Graham Lutz's Ghostscript PE Frontend as it is out of date. EpsonPs (c2000 lines of C, ANSI and K&R mixed :-( ) is better than MPS and nenscript (which are ASCII only), but does not support colour or proportional fonts and a few other things.
Interesting piece of news. There are a lot of us out here who have heard of Postscript and Ghostscript, but have no idea what they do. Could some kind person write an article for QL-Today in "dummies" style to help we non-technical idiots? Where we can download the various programs? How do we configure them? How do we print using them?
Best Wishes,
Geoff
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