[comp.archives] [unix-questions] Re: troff to postscript conversion

clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) (02/13/91)

Archive-name: text/troff/psroff/1991-02-12
Archive: cs.toronto.edu:/pub/psroff.* [128.100.1.65]
Original-posting-by: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Original-subject: Re: troff to postscript conversion
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

In article <1991Feb9.201008.3284@mlb.semi.harris.com> jdr@sloth.mlb.semi.harris.com (Jim Ray) writes:
|In article <5442@trantor.harris-atd.com> ferguson@x102c.ess.harris.com (ferguson ct 71078) writes:

|>Does anyone know where one might find a public-domain program that
|>will convert troff output to postscript?  Otherwise, is there another
|>way to print troff files on a postscript printer?  Thanks in advance.

|You might try psroff available from uunet.uu.net.

By all means, but:

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|Submitted-by: Chris Lewis <eci386!clewis@uunet.uu.net>
|Posting-number: Volume 20, Issue 33
|Archive-name: psroff/part01

PLEASE don't use this version (1.0).  The one you want is in ~ftp/pub/psroff/*.
The comp.sources.unix one is not only obsolete, but it sucks.   (I can
say that because I wrote it ;-)  Seriously, psroff 2.0 is MUCH better.
-- 
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