jorgnsn@qucis.queensu.CA (John Jorgensen) (01/13/89)
I'm exploring the various ways to print troff files on a Postscript printer. I have seen tpscript on an archive server and since we do have ditroff we could use tpscript. What experiences have people had with tpscript? The makefiles for X Windows manuals use something called ptroff; does anybody know what that is and where I can get it? Are there other alternatives entirely? You can mail replies to any of: jorgnsn@qucis.queensu.ca jorgnsn@qucis.bitnet jorgnsn@qucis.UUCP Thanks
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (01/16/89)
|experiences have people had with tpscript? The makefiles for X |Windows manuals use something called ptroff; does anybody know |what that is and where I can get it? Are there other ptroff is just a shell script supplied in Transcript to call ditroff, then psdit (ditroff to PS) and optionally send the result to the spooler (lpr). You can probably cook up a simple minded sh script to replace ptroff in 10 mins.
pag@tcsc3b2.UUCP (Philip A. Gross) (01/18/89)
In article <144@qusunb.queensu.CA>, jorgnsn@qucis.queensu.CA (John Jorgensen) writes: > I'm exploring the various ways to print troff files on a > Postscript printer. [...stuff deleted...] > what that is and where I can get it? Are there other > alternatives entirely? > An excellent product that we use is a package called TranScript by Adobe Systems, Inc. (the authors of PostScript) Their address is: ADOBE Systems, Inc. 1870 Embarcadero Rd. Suite 100 Palo Alto, CA 94303 1/800/344-8335 The TranScript product can take standard ascii files and convert the following into PostScript output for a PostScript printer: ascii ditroff (device independent troff) troff nroff TEK4014 diablo 630 print files plot(5) files (May not exist in newer Unix releases) There are also several programs which are supplied which provide the ability to print ascii files rotated, different font sizes and styles and a neat program called psrev which will reverse the output so that the last page comes out first and the first page last (ie, no collating) required. As part of the installation of the software, it will go ahead and set up a lp destination that understands the PostScript printer so that all you have to do to print a file is type: lp <file...> Licenses are available for both binary and source. ** PostScript and TranScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. ========================================+====================================== Philip A. Gross | The Computer Solution Co., Inc. | I haven't heard what I have 1009 Sycamore Square, P.O. Box 716 | to say about that yet. Midlothian, VA 23113-0716 | Voice: (804)794-3491 | ----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- INTERNET: pag%tcsc3b2@wb3ffv.ampr.org USENET: ...!ames!haven!aplcen!wb3ffv!tcsc3b2!pag UUCP: tcsc3b2!pag (804)794-1514 ATTMAIL: attmail!tcsc3b2!pag ******************************************************************************* The opinions expressed here are strictly mine and nobody elses. ===============================================================================