arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (08/16/90)
We have a PostScript printer connected to our Silicon Graphics IRIS and need some way of printing ordinary things like program listings and outputs. We've already got a dvi-to-ps for our TeX implementation and a PostScript driver for our graphics package, so we don't need anything fancy at all -- just some way of dumping an ASCII file to the LaserWriter. (We do need to be able to print 130 characters across the page.) A ready-to-run program (or as close as possible) would be nice. We're a bunch of theorists who are trying to figure out how to work a computer, and so aren't competent to do a lot of debugging. Yes, PostScript is overkill for simple things like this, but we can't afford a second printer. Thanks for whatever help you can provide. ________________________________________________________________________ Ray Arritt | Dept. of Physics and Astronomy | Univ. of Kansas | Lawrence, KS 66045 | arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu | arritt@ukanvax.bitnet |
adamfox@super.ORG (Adam Fox) (08/16/90)
In article <25289.26c9ba08@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: > We have a PostScript printer connected to our Silicon Graphics IRIS and > need some way of printing ordinary things like program listings and > outputs. We've already got a dvi-to-ps for our TeX implementation and > a PostScript driver for our graphics package, so we don't need anything > fancy at all -- just some way of dumping an ASCII file to the LaserWriter. > (We do need to be able to print 130 characters across the page.) If you can find obtain a copy of ENSCRIPT, it sounds like exactly what you are looking for. It converts text files into postscript and has many options so the output is very nice. You can print 2 pages to a page, page number, and many other options. It is available from Adobe Systems and is worth purchasing. -- Adam Fox adamfox@super.org adamfox@metropolis.super.org
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (08/18/90)
>If you can find obtain a copy of ENSCRIPT, it sounds like exactly what you are >looking for. It is available from Adobe Systems and is worth purchasing. Unless you already have Transcript from Adobe, in which case you already have "enscript" unless they unbundled it from recent versions (I doubt they have, but the world is full of surprises)....