darylm@illian.UUCP (Daryl V. McDaniel) (09/26/88)
Recently several people have asked if there translators to go from troff (ditroff) to PostScript. I know of several; I am sure that there are more. Transcript from Adobe Systems I am the most familiar with this system. I have used V2.0 and it is OK. There are numerous bugs but it isn't too hard to get around them. The one that bothered me the most was that I couldn't specify underlined fonts because font U wasn't defined. A source license is available for $1795.00. DOMAIN: .adobe.com GATEWAY: adobe COMPANY: Adobe Systems Incorporated ADDRESS: 1585 Charleston Road, P.O. Box 7900, Mountain View, CA 94039-7900 Eroff from Elan Computer Group, Inc. This is an excellent package that contains DWB 2.0, previewers, and drivers for HP Laserjet and PostScript printers. It is supported and available as binaries for many systems. It also has excellent X windows support. I have never used this product myself, but have had glowing reports from people who have. HOST: elan COMPANY: Elan Computer Group, Inc. ADDRESS: 410 Cambridge Avenue, Suite A, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA devps from Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc. The devps package is a collection of programs that support device independent troff in the PostScript environment. It includes capabilities to include PostScript files from other systems, including MacDraw and MacPaint. It is also easy to add other fonts (19 are supplied) such as the Hershey fonts. Source is available for $495.00. They also have a program that converts from old-troff (otroff) to ditroff and a Tek-4014 to PostScript translator. HOST: ssc COMPANY: Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc. ADDRESS: PO Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 PHONE: 206-FOR-UNIX comp.sources.unix The USENET Archives Within the last year there was a ditroff to PostScript converter posted to comp.sources.unix. I have it somewhere on a tape but our tape drive is dead (temporary I hope) so I can't check it. I haven't tried to use it so I don't know any thing about it. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Daryl V. McDaniel .........sun!nosun!illian!darylm Micronetics USENET: ...tektronix!nosun!illian!darylm 4730 S.W. 182nd Ave. TELEX: WUI 6972206 Aloha, OR 97007 PHONE: (503) 224-7056
jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) (09/27/88)
In article <346@illian.UUCP> darylm@illian.UUCP (Daryl V. McDaniel) writes: >Recently several people have asked if there translators to go from troff >(ditroff) to PostScript. I know of several; I am sure that there are more. > >[... stuff deleted (all commercial available translators) ... ] >comp.sources.unix The USENET Archives That was TPSCRIPT (5 parts). We did compile it (System V) and use it with DWB 2.0 from AT&T. It works excellent and at this moment we don't need more: there is also a PostScript program to obtain a shell script (!) with font information back from the LaserWriter. In fact, we did not have *any* problems with tpscript - only with the DWB software itself :-) -- -- ###### Jos Vos ###### Internet jos@idca.tds.philips.nl ###### -- ###### ###### UUCP ...!mcvax!philapd!jos ######
bossert@Thalatta.COM (John Bossert) (09/28/88)
In article <346@illian.UUCP> darylm@illian.UUCP (Daryl V. McDaniel) writes: >Recently several people have asked if there translators to go from troff >(ditroff) to PostScript. I know of several; I am sure that there are more. [ lots of good stuff deleted ] We have an implementation of devps oriented towards Berkeley systems, and in particular Suns. Our product runs on Sun4's running SunOS 4.0 (which is something the Sun folks tell me Transcript won't do) and provides integral support of the Berkeley printer spooler. For more information: DOMAIN: .thalatta.com GATEWAY: thebes COMPANY: Thalatta Corporation ADDRESS: 1607 116th Ave NE, Suite 102, Bellevue, WA 98004 PHONE: +1 206 455 9838 INFO: software@Thalatta.COM -- In-Real-Life: John Bossert, Thalatta Corporation, (+1 206 455 9838) Domain: bossert@Thalatta.COM Path: ...!sun!sunup!thebes!bossert