9531sons%UCSBUXA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jamie Sonsini) (08/25/88)
For several years we've been using a product from Image Networks named
HPXroff. This product accepts Troff input and will output to an HP
LaserJet or LaserJet II printer. Very nice, but there is no screen
previewer for a Sun system monitor.
We are looking to put together a package the will accept troff input
and generate output for an HP LaserJet printer, a Postscript printer
and a Sun system monitor. In our search we came across a product from
Elan Computer Group, Inc. named Eroff. It appears to cover the ground
we're interested in.
Anyone had any experience with Eroff or Elan? Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Jamie Sonsini
UC Santa Barbara
9531sons@ucsbuxa.bitnet
9531sons@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edurreed@mntgfx.mentor.com (Robert Reed) (08/29/88)
In article <16882@adm.ARPA> 9531sons%UCSBUXA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jamie Sonsini) writes:
Anyone had any experience with Eroff or Elan? Any other suggestions?
I bought the Elan Eroff package (pic, tbl, soelim, eqn, etc.) early this
summer for my MS(hitty)DOS system, and I would recommend it. I have a
LW-II NT and everything works (mostly) pretty well. They have a lot of
support for the Laserjet--font downloading, etc., and installation is real
easy. They also have some utilities like a graphing package, etc.
My only complaints are that they apparently provide no utility to dump raw
Postscript files to the printer, and that the utility for printing lp
listings on a postscript printer (called psprint) dumps its output to STDOUT.
This latter feature makes me think that the latest product release had
the wrong ifdefs set (it does the perfectly reasonable thing for UNIX), but
with a few hours effort I was able to write my own lw transfer tool, so
psprint | lw works perfectly fine.keith@uport.UUCP (Keith Hankin) (08/30/88)
In article <16882@adm.ARPA> 9531sons%UCSBUXA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jamie Sonsini) writes: > >Anyone had any experience with Eroff or Elan? Any other suggestions? > > Thanks, > Jamie Sonsini > UC Santa Barbara > 9531sons@ucsbuxa.bitnet > 9531sons@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Eroff by Elan is an excellent product and has very good laser printer support for HP Laser Jets and Postscript printers (e.g. Apple LaserWriter). -- Keith Hankin keith@uport Microport Systems
morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell) (08/31/88)
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Anyone had any experience with Eroff or Elan? Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Jamie Sonsini
UC Santa Barbara
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We've been using Elan's software for several years and are very pleased with
it. They have been very responsive to questions and bug reports. My group's
main product is an 800 page document, which uses a lot of pic, tbl, and eqn,
so we rely on it quite heavily. I think you'll be happy with Eroff.
Michael Morrell
Hewlett-Packard