howard@hasse.ericsson.se (Howard Gayle) (03/01/90)
Requests for software to convert text to PostScript are common
on comp.lang.postscript. As the author of one such system (cz),
I sometimes respond. But cz is not the best software for
everyone, so I've decided to put together a brief listing of all
the software I know about. I can then mail it to people who
request information, or maybe post it now and then. I hope the
format is self-explanatory. Please email any additions or
corrections to me---don't post them.
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Howard Gayle
TN/ETX/TT/HL
Ericsson Telecom AB
S-126 25 Stockholm
Sweden
howard@ericsson.se
uunet!ericsson.se!howard
Phone: +46 8 719 5565
FAX : +46 8 719 8439
$Header: TEXT-TO-PS,v 1.2 90/03/01 14:41:17 howard Exp $
TEXT-TO-POSTSCRIPT CONVERSION SOFTWARE
Name a2ps
Status copyrighted, freely redistributable except under
compilation copyright
Targets UNIX, MS-DOS
Features Two pages on each physical page, borders surrounding pages,
headers, line numbering, multiple copies, landscape
and portrait mode, wide format, lines numbering,
fold/cut long lines, control font size.
Get-from comp.sources.misc volume 10, issue 73, archive name
a2ps3, posted 17 February 1990
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miguel@imag.fr or miguel@imag.UUCP (uunet.uu.net!imag!miguel)
Miguel SANTANA
LGI
IMAG-Campus
BP 53X
38041 Grenoble Cedex
France
Name ato2pps
Status copyrighted, freely redistributable for noncommercial use
Targets UNIX, possibly available on Macintosh (C program)
Features Prints ASCII printable text boxed, 2-up, in
landscape mode. Prints boxed header with date&time,
file name, and page number.
Get-from Mark Edwards <edwards@vms.macc.wisc.edu>
(as of December 1988; UNIX version available from Jim Ingram)
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Jim Ingram uunet!h-three!jimi | jimi%h-three@uunet.uu.net
h-three Systems Corporation P.O. Box 12557 RTP NC 27709 919 549 8334
Name cz
Status free software (GNU license)
Targets UNIX
Features table-driven, handles almost any character set, uses
any font on printer, control font sizes, paper
size, page layout, number of columns, line numbers,
portrait or landscape mode, page reversal, leading
(line spacing), tab expansion. Emacs interface.
Get-from comp.sources.misc volume 8 issues 65-75, 77-78 ( 1 Oct 1989)
issue 97 (28 Oct 1989)
(Other prerequisites: see README file at beginning of
issue 65.)
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Howard Gayle
TN/ETX/TT/HL
Ericsson Telecom AB
S-126 25 Stockholm
Sweden
howard@ericsson.se
uunet!ericsson.se!howard
Phone: +46 8 719 5565
FAX : +46 8 719 8439
Name Enscript
Status commercial
Targets UNIX
Features 1 or 2 columns, portrait or landscape, manual paper
feed, headers, line printer simulation, line wrap or
truncation, control lines on page, fonts.
Get-from Part of Adobe Transcript package
Name ETSR
Status commercial
Targets MS-DOS
Features Epson MX-80 to PostScript translator, includes
Epson Mx-80 graphics modes, supports virtual printers,
PrintScreen key
Get-from $75 from Niche Marketing, 7198 Camino Colegio, Rohnert
Park, CA 94928, USA. Phone +1 707-795-7306. Overseas
shipping is $5 extra. CA residents please include
6.25% sales tax.
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Clayton E. Cramer <cramer%optilink@uunet.UU.NET>
Name lpp
Status copyrighted; freely redistributable for noncommercial use
Targets UNIX, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, VAX/VMS, IBM PC, and more.
Features headers, different paper sizes, borders, font size,
banner page, truncate or fold long lines, adjust
margins, Swedish ISO 646, multiple copies.
Get-from Fredric Ihren <fred@nada.kth.se>
Name lwf
Status copyrighted; freely redistributable for noncommercial use
Targets UNIX
Features indent, portrait/landscape, margin adjust, page range,
point size, tab stops, headers, page reversal,
multicolumn printing (via pr)
Get-from comp.sources.unix volume 15 issue 8, 25 May 1988,
archive name lwf (obsolete version with minor bugs).
An updated version can be ftp'ed from cs.ubc.ca
(128.189.97.5). It's in tmp/lwf-2.2.shar.Z.
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Barry Brachman | UUCP: {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!
Dept. of Computer Science| ubc-vision!ubc-csgrads!brachman
Univ. of British Columbia| Internet: brachman@cs.ubc.ca
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 | brachman%ubc.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
(604) 228-3123 | brachman@ubc.csnet
Name Post
Status shareware ($5)
Targets MS-DOS
Features control margins, fonts, orientation, scaling
Get-from F. C. Betts
Veda Incorporated
Suite 200
5200 Springfield Pike
Dayton, OH 45431
Name POSTPRN
Status public domain
Targets MS-DOS
Features A MS-DOS device driver that prints {portrait, landscape} and
{1-up, 2-up, 4-up} pages. Automatically converts ASCII to
PostScript simply by opening the device and writing to it.
Get-from grape.ecs.clarkson.edu:/d/dosutil/postprn.zip
(315)268-6667 (1N8, 12/2400), file area 7, postprn.zip
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Russell Nelson (nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu)
Name printer
Status commercial
Targets UNIX and MS-DOS (C program)
Features Monofont (Courier); monosize (12 pitch).
With other devps programs, supports portrait
and landscape printing, manual feed, reverse
page order printing, message and other overlays,
^L (form feed) page eject.
Get-from Part of Pipeline Associates' devps package.
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Jim Ingram uunet!h-three!jimi | jimi%h-three@uunet.uu.net
h-three Systems Corporation P.O. Box 12557 RTP NC 27709 919 549 8334
Name PSR
Status
Targets MS-DOS
Features
Get-from
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I ported the old program PSR from Unix to DOS just yesterday, but I
haven't used it much. So far it works OK. I will be porting and
testing several other programs in the near future. I can send what I
have, but unless you are in a rush, wait a bit, OK?
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Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill
Internet: bill%biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bill%biomel%dalcs@dalac
Name swtext
Status commercial
Targets
Features started off as a clone of Adobe's ``enscript'',
but is now greatly enhanced, eg large numbers of columns, ``document''
mode with paragraph fills and *bold* and _italic_ printing (controlled
by *...* and _..._ respectively), more control over page layout....
Get-from Harlequin Ltd,
Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambridge, CAMBS, United Kingdom
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scriptworks-request@harlqn.co.uk
Name TOPS
Status
Targets
Features
Get-from comp.binaries.ibm.pc
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