Sun's Newsprint Postscript interpreter

[Ivan S Leung]

We are planning to buy the Newsprint software from Sun.

Does anybody know how well it interpretes the Postscript file generated by
PC and Mac desktop publishing software such as PageMaker, Ventura and
Quark Express?

Where can I get additional fonts for Newsprint?  Can I load Adobe Type 1
fonts to Newsprint?  Are there tools to convert Adobe Type 1 fonts to
OpenFonts F3 format?

We plan to use Newsprint not just for network printing.  We already have a
few PostScript printers (they are just slow).  We are interested in using
it to render PostScript files to bitmaps.  I have tried to use the
built-in PostScript interpreter from OpenWindows 2.0 to process some
PostScript files.  It works with files produced by Ventura and Microsoft
Word but not with PageMaker.  Also, the OpenWindows PS differs from Adobe
PS in rendering sampled images.  OpenWindows uses dithering while Adobe
uses halftoning.

Is Newsprint the same PS engine from OpenWindows ? (I hope not)

How does Newsprint handle sampled images (dither/halftone) ?  If it does
both, can a user selects which method it uses?  (sometimes I prefer
dithering than halftoning)

Maybe I should just simply ask: How compatible is Newsprint with Adobe PS?

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