cjroehrig@poppy.uwaterloo.ca (Chris J. Roehrig) (08/12/90)
Thanks to all who responded about the WriteNow -> Postscript question. Silly me; of course you just click on Save in the Print window from any application to save a Postscript file to disk. There doesn't seem to be an application to do this from a Unix prompt, but there are ones to convert from WriteNow to troff (wn2troff) and ASCII (wn2ascii) available from nova.cc.purdue.edu. The ASCII one doesn't preserve fonts, etc., of course, but the troff one also doesn't give an exact rendering (see the package for more details). They might be useful for providing access to the manuals without using the console, though. There is also a program under /NextApps/WriteNow.app called wn2rtf to convert to rtf format. For double sided printing, there is a utility (in pstools at nova.cc.purdue.edu) for extracting even an odd pages from a Postscript file. It makes some assumptions about how pages are defined, so it won't work in all cases, but it seems to work fine on WriteNow stuff. (One that works generally would have to be a full-blown Postscript interpreter.) Chris Roehrig (croehrig@audiolab.waterloo.edu) Audio Research Group University of Waterloo, Canada