howard@hasse.ericsson.se (Howard Gayle) (02/13/90)
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. (I'm especially interested in a complete entry for a2ps.) -- 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 1.1 90/02/12 17:26:36 howard Exp $ TEXT-TO-POSTSCRIPT CONVERSION SOFTWARE Name a2ps Status Targets Features Get-from science.utah.edu 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.) -- 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 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. -- 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 PSR Status Targets MS-DOS Features Get-from -- 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? -- 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 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. -- Clayton E. Cramer <cramer%optilink@uunet.UU.NET> Name TOPS Status Targets Features Get-from comp.binaries.ibm.pc -- | Ian Farquhar | Phone : (02) 805-7420 (STD) | | Microcomputer Support | (612) 805-7420 (ISD) | | Office of Computing Services | Fax : (02) 805-7433 (STD) | | Macquarie University NSW 2109 | (612) 805-7433 (ISD) | | Australia | Also : 805-7205 |