wcwang@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (06/03/88)
Does anyone have experience with porting the Adobe's transcript package
(ditroff, troff to postscript and print ascii, tex to postscript,etc...)
to Apollos? Thanks in advance.
Bill Wang
Speech & Hearing Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
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Phone = (812) 335-0714wcwang@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (06/08/88)
wcwang@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu: > > > Does anyone have experience with porting the Adobe's transcript package > (ditroff, troff to postscript and print ascii, tex to postscript,etc...) > to Apollos? Thanks in advance. > > > Bill Wang > Speech & Hearing Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 > > UUCP = {ihnp4,seismo,cbosgd}!iuvax!wcwang > CSNET = wcwang@indiana > ARPA = wcwang@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu > Phone = (812) 335-0714 Here are the abstracts I have received so far about troff to postscript filter in transcript package from adobe. My problem was solved by Andrew Jay Schneider (see message no. 2). Many thanks to him and all the others who replied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From adobe!byron@decwrl.dec.com Fri Jun 3 19:26:36 1988 To: wcwang@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Subject: Re: TranScript on Apollo Date: Fri, 03 Jun 88 15:48:10 PDT Status: R The problem with moving TranScript software onto an Apollo platform is that the spooling support needs to have a vanilla UNIX spooling system. The spooling support converts text files to the PostScript language automatically, logs errors from the printer, reverses page order if desired, and other nifty things. The last time I checked, there was no vanilla (System V or BSD) spooling system on Apollos -- they have their own spooler. If they ever offer compatible spooling, TranScript should be able to work with it. You don't absolutely have to have the spooling support -- if you are mostly interested in converting ditroff stuff to PostScript language, you could use TranScript software to generate the PostScript, then cat it into the printer. Or you could set up a "dumb" filter under the Apollo that cat'ed files for you... Hope this helps, Mike Byron usenet: {sun|decwrl}!adobe!byron Adobe Systems Incorporated arpa: adobe!byron@decwrl.dec.com 1585 Charleston Road, PO Box 7900 Mountain View, CA 94309-7900 > comments: my method of dealing with this problem is to use prf inside > lpr, so domain/ix's spooler system looks like a pure bsd4.2 from outside. > if anyone wants info about that, please drop me a note. Bill Wang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ihnp4!hpfcla!hpda!procase!ajs Fri Jun 3 23:15:54 1988 Date: Fri, 3 Jun 88 16:46:38 pdt From: ihnp4!hpfcla!hpda!procase!ajs (Andrew Jay Schneider) To: hpda!hpfcla!ihnp4!iuvax!wcwang Subject: Troff to PS on Apollo Status: R We've been running Adobe's package for over a year with both troff and ditroff without many problems. The one bigish glitch I remember is the mechanism for making the font width tables for troff won't work on the Apollo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you're interested I could send you my work-around. Good Luck, Andy Schneider > comment: I got the work-around and it worked for me! Thanks. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rutgers!riacs!ames!elan!jlo Sat Jun 4 08:45:28 1988 Date: Fri, 3 Jun 88 10:40:51 pdt From: Jeff Lo <rutgers!riacs!ames!elan!jlo> To: wcwang@iuvax Subject: Re: Troff to PS on apollo Status: R I don't have experience with TranScript, but there is another package that includes ditroff and PostScript filters on the market that supports Apollos: Elan Computer Group, Inc. sells a package called EROFF which is the AT&T Documenter's WorkBench (DWB), including device independent troff, nroff, tbl, eqn, pic, grap, macros, etc., plus bug fixes and enhancements including bitmap graphics inclusion, and drivers for the HP LaserJet line of printers and PostScript printers (an Imagen driver is also available). Automatic HP Soft Font downloading is done for the LaserJets. Downloadable Adobe PostScript fonts may also be used. DWB and the printer drivers are also available separately. All of this is available on dozens of different UNIX machines and under MS-DOS. Our soft copy screen previewer EVIEW is available for Suns under SunView, many systems under X-Windows V10.R4, and support for X11 is in progress. All of DWB 2.0 and EROFF's enhancements are supported by EVIEW. Please write or call for more information. Jeff Lo Elan Computer Group, Inc. 410 Cambridge Avenue, Suite A Palo Alto, CA 94306 (415) 322-2450 ..!{ames,hplabs}!elan!jlo > comment: I had info about the product and it sounded pretty good but > I had no experience with it. There are a couple of other products > in the market and I remember that there is a review of them on > recent UNIX review magazine. Bill Wang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rutgers!uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl Sun Jun 5 04:28:41 1988 To: wcwang@iuvax Date: Sat Jun 4 11:45:38 1988 Status: R I did a port of TranScript to 8086 Xenix a few years ago. It was only a mild problem. We have ported some of our other software to Apollos with few problems so I would guess that it won't be too much of a problem. If there is any problem area, I would expect it to be related to the spooler. On the other hand, Devps, an TranScript equivalent costs less, works just fine and is easier to port. I have ported this as well. (We sell both TranScript and Devps). Hope this helps. Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl or uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl --- Phil uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rutgers!uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl Mon Jun 6 14:02:25 1988 To: wcwang@iuvax Subject: transcript Date: Mon Jun 6 09:57:41 1988 Status: R I have run devps with both the BSD and DWB versions of troff with no problems. It comes with a whole bunch of font tables and the makedev program to create the font tables. I am sending you our catalog that has a page on devps in it. If you have any other questions, give me a call. From adobe!byron@decwrl.dec.com Mon Jun 6 14:42:52 1988 To: Bill Wang <wcwang@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: TranScript on Apollo Date: Mon, 06 Jun 88 12:31:43 PDT Status: R >> Yes, I think the problem was with the font width files and I will talk to >> apollo tech support about it. Thanks. One thing you might try is byte-swapping the font width files so that the ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ byte order looks like a VAX. Vendors sometimes take the Berkeley port and use the font files from the VAX without changing byte order, then port troff based on these (bogus) files. Mike Byron usenet: {sun|decwrl}!adobe!byron Adobe Systems Incorporated arpa: adobe!byron@decwrl.dec.com 1585 Charleston Road, PO Box 7900 Mountain View, CA 94309-7900 > comment: actually the problem was with the font width table and > you have to put in some blank headers in front of the width info. > Bill Wang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope this helps! Bill Wang Speech & Hearing Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 UUCP = {ihnp4,seismo,cbosgd}!iuvax!wcwang CSNET = wcwang@indiana ARPA = wcwang@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Phone = (812) 335-0714