mannel@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Bill Mannel) (07/14/89)
We at NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility in Edwards AFB, CA (where the space shuttle lands) have a SUN 3/280 operating as a fileserver on a network containing lots of SUN 3/60's, and FastPaths connecting the network to AppleTalk networks with Mac SE's, II's and IIx's. We have a couple of QMS KISS printers (non-PostScript) as well as Apple LaserWriters on the AppleTalk network. We would like to do as much of the following as possible: 1. Screen dumps to printers from our SUN color and b/w terminals 2. Print PostScript files and format text files for PostScript 3. Print Latex files 4. Print cgm files like those created by SUN GKS Any suggestions for software to do some (or all) of these things? Dealer responses are certainly welcome. Bill Mannel mannel@freon.dfrf.nasa.gov (805) 258-3899
phill%med-image.compsci.bristol.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (07/28/89)
>We would like to do as much of the following as possible: >1. Screen dumps to printers from our SUN color and b/w terminals You need the program psraster which is, I believe, in the rice archives otherwise I have a copy here (public domain). This program is the best I have found for general Sun raster printing. The actual generation of the screendump can be done by the Sun standard screendump command. >2. Print PostScript files and format text files for PostScript You either need the Sun product transcript (about $1500? list) or you could use the public domain alternative applef (which we use here) and which is in the LaTeX distribution. Applef or transcript are both perfectly capable of meeting your requirements. >3. Print Latex files Included with the LaTeX distribution is the program dvi2ps which converts dvi files (LaTeX output) to postscript which can then be printed out using the methods in (2). >4. Print cgm files like those created by SUN GKS We have the Sun GKS package here; however, I do not use it. I do know that we do produce postscript printouts using no other software tho' so looks like the Sun GKS distribution is sufficent. In all of the above cases we have gone the public domain route where available and all works fine with SunOS 4.01 and Laserwriter II NTX's. Hope this is of some help to you, Phill Everson Medical Imaging Dept Comp Sci University of Bristol, UK