hg@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (henry.grebe) (07/26/89)
Is there a program out there that converts nroff format files
to PostScript format?
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kg@elan.elan.com (Ken Greer) (07/27/89)
From article <2582@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>, by hg@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (henry.grebe): > Is there a program out there that converts nroff format files > to PostScript format? Yes. Call... Elan Computer Group, Inc. 888 Villa Street, 3rd Floor Mountain View, CA 94041 Phone: 415-964-2200 FAX: 415-964-8588
brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) (07/28/89)
In article <2582@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> hg@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (henry.grebe) writes:
<Is there a program out there that converts nroff format files
<to PostScript format?
Nroff is a fixed spaced printer support program. It is for things like
daisy wheel letter quality printers. PostScript is a proportional spaced
type printer (fixed spaced Courier is included), but since that isn't the
main appeal, PostScript support is mostly for troff type programs.
Adobe makes a package called Transcript that has troff and ditroff support
for PostScript printers. Give them a call.
Good luck.
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ARPA/INTERNET: brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edusilvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (07/28/89)
In article <597@elan.elan.com> kg@elan.elan.com (Ken Greer) writes: >From article <2582@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>, by hg@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (henry.grebe): >> Is there a program out there that converts nroff format files >> to PostScript format? > >Yes. Call... > Elan Computer Group, Inc. I'm not sure whether this is an ad, but there are several free programs that do this, and I can provide one of them. -- Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2 UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill Internet: biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bs%dalcs@dalac.BITNET
clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis) (07/29/89)
In various articles people said:
call Elan
call Adobe
Well, add:
wait for comp.sources.unix to ship psroff.
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Phone: (416)-595-5425steve@halley.UUCP (Steve Williams) (07/29/89)
>In article <2582@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> hg@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (henry.grebe) writes: >Is there a program out there that converts nroff format files >to PostScript format? This gets asked so often that I usually ignore the question and followups. (I'm not complaining, mind you. I asked the question myself almost two years ago.) But I happened to read a couple of the followups recommending Adobe's Transcript and Elan's products. I've got nothing bad to say about either of those -- I haven't used them. I do have lots of good to say about a product called "devps" from Pipeline Associates (publishers of the ever-elusive PostScript Language Journal). We've been using devps here for 18 months and we're very happy with it. It's a commercial product, so it's not free, but it's not very inexpensive. It costs only $395 (down $100 from a year ago) for a single-machine _source_ license, or $795 for a site source license. It took about 20 minutes to "port" [:-)] the source to our system. For your money you get more than just an [ntxyz]roff-to- PostScript converter, you get several very useful auxiliary programs as well. Here's Pipeline's address out of the most recent PSLJ: Pipeline Associates, Inc. 239 Main Street West Orange, NJ 07052 (201)-731-7860 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Williams ...!cs.utexas.edu!halley!steve -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
kg@elan.elan.com (Ken Greer) (07/29/89)
From article <1989Jul28.152414.28797@cs.dal.ca>, by silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert): > In article <597@elan.elan.com> kg@elan.elan.com (Ken Greer) writes: >>From article <2582@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>, by hg@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (henry.grebe): >>> Is there a program out there that converts nroff format files >>> to PostScript format? >> >>Yes. Call... >> Elan Computer Group, Inc. > > I'm not sure whether this is an ad... No, it was just a response. You'll notice there was nothing said about the product, not even its name.
silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (07/30/89)
In article <603@elan.elan.com> kg@elan.elan.com (Ken Greer) writes: >> I'm not sure whether this is an ad... > >No, it was just a response. You'll notice there was nothing said about the >product, not even its name. OK -- is this a product you sell or distribute free? Given the number of free packages that convert nroff to PostScript, I think the readers of this newsgroup would like a franker response than you have provided. -- Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2 UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill Internet: biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bs%dalcs@dalac.BITNET
gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (08/08/89)
Here is another way: Assuming you have access to ditroff (AT&T's device independent troff), there is a program on the net "tpscript" that converts the troff codes to postscript. I have it running in my directory. You can get it from archive #13 of comp.sources.unix. It is quite a pig; every character is positioned separately on the page, but this is the fault of ditroff, not tpscript. It is tailored for the Apple laserwriter, but works o.k. on our imagens with Ultrascript (although the symbol font needs to be in italics, anyone have a fix??!!!!!)