patti@bucket.UUCP (Patti Beadles) (02/11/88)
Brand new job: Assignment number one on Monday morning was to take the LaserWriter they'd bought and hook it up to the Xeniix box so that they can run their ditroff output to it. List of people who might be able to help was kindly included. After chasing down numberous references, nobody in the company knows how to do it. Actually, nobody knows how to do it without us having to spend $1800 for a Transcript source license. Which isn't out of the question, but we'd like to avoid it if at all possible. There has to be some way to do this. Since it's supposedly device- independent, my hunch would be that there's a relatively simple filter available somewhere to do it. But I know next to nothing about ditroff (or *roff), and about that much about PostScript. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- ************************************************************************** * The opinions expressed above are a figment of your imagination. * * ...tektronix!teksce!bucket!patti Patti Beadles to non-net types. * **************************************************************************
kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) (02/14/88)
From article <764@bucket.UUCP>, by patti@bucket.UUCP (Patti Beadles): > > Nobody knows how to do it without us having to > spend $1800 for a Transcript source license. There are less expensive (and more functional) solutions than Transcript from: Elan Computer Group, Inc. 410 Cambridge Ave., Suite A Palo Alto CA 94306 415-322-2450 A package called Eroff is a supported DWB package with LaserJet and PostScript support. PostScript driver-only is also available. -- Ken Greer Elan Computer Group, Inc. 415-322-2450 {ames,hplabs}!elan!kg
brianc@daedalus (Brian Colfer) (03/02/88)
In article <262@elan.UUCP> kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) writes: >From article <764@bucket.UUCP>, by patti@bucket.UUCP (Patti Beadles): >> >> Nobody knows how to do it without us having to >> spend $1800 for a Transcript source license. > >There are less expensive (and more functional) solutions >than Transcript from: > >A package called Eroff is a supported DWB package with LaserJet >and PostScript support. PostScript driver-only is also available. As a good alternative to either of these products Postsc does a great job of combining the best of Eroff, Transcript and devps postprocessors as well as giving all the functionallity of psfig. Postsc gives you faithful ditroff output and allows for including (1) PostScript images, (2) PostScript programs to manipulate ditroff text or images, and (3) easy commands to do simple PostScript manipulations like mixing landscape and portrait orientations on a single page. Send me UUCP mail ucbvax!cgl!brianc or brianc@cgl.ucsf.edu and I'll forward the manual page and the address/phone for more info. ========================================================================== : UCSF Dept. of Lab. Medicine : brianc@cgl.ucsf.edu Brian Colfer : PH. 415-476-2325 : brianc@daedalus.ucsf.edu : : brianc@ucsfcca.bitnet ==========================================================================
robert@pyr.gatech.EDU (Robert Viduya) (03/03/88)
We're currently using a package called devps(tm) written by Pipeline Associates, Inc and distributed by Specialized Systems Consultants. We've been pretty satisfied with it, but we haven't actually put it into full production yet. Contact SSC at (206)-FOR-UNIX for more info. robert -- Robert Viduya robert@pyr.gatech.edu Office of Computing Services Georgia Institute of Technology (404) 894-6296 Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0275