raj@cbnewsl.att.com (Richard A. Johnson) (11/10/90)
Like several other people who have posted articles in this newsgroup recently, I too am faced with the proposition of transitioning from troff to some kind of desktop publishing software. My organization has been using troff for many years, but we just purchased 6 Sun SPARCstation 1+ machines and I am going to be evaluating Framemaker and Interleaf as a possible replacement for troff. Besides the ease-of-use issue, which I will determine by trying the products myself, I am trying to find out if there is a way to convert either Framemaker or Interleaf documents to troff format and vice-versa. Converting to troff would allow us at Bell Labs to submit our documents to the library network electronically, and converting from troff would allow someone with a Sun to view a document that was written by someone without a Sun. If anybody has information about this, please send me mail. Also, if there is a product other than Framemaker or Interleaf that I should be looking at for the SPARCstation, let me know. Thanks, Rich Johnson AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ (201) 386-7345 att!video!raj
npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) (11/10/90)
There was also a query a few weeks ago about PostScript previewers. There is a program called pageview that Sun includes with its OPEN LOOK distribution which displays PostScript on screen. Anyone with DWB 3.1 troff can do: troff ... | dpost | pageview to get on-screen documents. There is also a "ditview" program on the X11R4 tape that goes straight from troff: troff -TX75 ... | ditview The advantage of the former is that it permits pictures and displays all fonts; the latter does not.