charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) (09/24/89)
How does one tell troff to go to a specific point on the page? The man page for psdit in the TranScript package says that \!%PB \! postscript \! code \! here \!PE \!. inserts the PostScript with the origin of the coordinate system at "ditroff's idea of the current position on the page," which it does. Great! So how do I specify "ditroff's idea of the current position on the page?" The few things I've tried all produce the same result: the "current position" is right at the end of the last word typeset.
goodloe@b11.ingr.com (Tony Goodloe) (04/26/91)
Sorry for rehashing this issue, but we don't have articles going as far as the imbedding postscript in troff issue. Of course I have a need for this info now. Can someone email this thread to me or else tell me how to imbed postsrcipt in troff? I am very apprciative of any help I can get. thanks tony
npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) (04/30/91)
In DWB 3.1, PostScript files of any kind can be included by: troff stuff .BP file.ps height width flags more troff stuff Then troff -mpictures -mm file | dpost | lp If file.ps is encapsulated PostScript, the BoundingBox comments will be honored; otherwise, file.ps is assumed to describe an 8 1/2 x 11 page which is scaled to fit. The flags are for things like left-justify with text on the right, center justify with text flow around, and right justify. Also, rotation, captions and a few other goodies. The Picasso drawing program, included with DWB 3.1, is particularly good at creating encapsulated PostScript; other packages may not put in the bounding box.
lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) (05/04/91)
npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes: > In DWB 3.1, PostScript files of any kind can be included by: > .BP file.ps height width flags Of course, most or all of the other versions of troff can also do this, with more or less effort. For example, with ditroff and Transcript you can use psfig, and Elan's eroff and SoftQuad's sqtroff have built in requests for including bitmaps and/or PostScript graphics. So I think do the other commercial versions of troff. If you use the troff back-end that Chris Lewis wrote (`psroff'), you can even do this with the old C/A/T troff, I understand. I don't like the BP mnemonic for PostScript Illustration, by the way :-) We named a macro for including illustrations ILLUST, which seems to make more sense -- BP sounds suspiciously like Begin Page to me. Presumably by now the ancient 2-character restriction on macro name length has been lifted in DWB? > The Picasso drawing program, included with DWB 3.1, > is particularly good at creating encapsulated PostScript; In what way does Picasso do this better than other programs which do it, that justifies `particlarly good'? We've had no problem using a wide range of PostScript files, including those from Adobe Illustrator and other Mac programs, public-domain drawing programs and others. Lee [disclaimer: this article we posted by me, not by SoftQuad... etc etc...] -- Liam Russell Quin, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto... 416 963 8337... lee@sq.com `What one person finds valuable others do not even notice. And they do not notice that they do not notice.' -- Scott Kim, `Interdisciplinary Communication', in `The Art of [HCI] Design'