datthro@daimi.dk (Thomas Rohde) (10/24/89)
I'm still having trouble printing ez documents (sigh!). I can hack tpscript so that it will let anything between the "%" and "." in the ditroff input pass through unaltered. This doesn't seem to be enough, however. If I print the document the postscript code doesn't show on paper. I suspect the hacked tpscript isn't enough, I'm missing some postscript code. The included postscript uses two commands, PB and PE, surrounding the actual code, which aren't defined in the resultin postscript file. I suppose they are doing some kind of setup. If my asumptions are correct, would someone mail me the missing code (if it isn't copyrighted.) Thanks, Thomas Rohde (datthro@daimi.dk)
jaap+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Jaap Akkerhuis) (10/25/89)
> Excerpts from mail: 24-Oct-89 Printing ez documents (again) Thomas > Rohde@uunet.uu.ne (691) > The included postscript uses two commands, > PB and PE, surrounding the actual code, which aren't defined in the > resultin postscript > file. I suppose they are doing some kind of setup. If my asumptions are > correct, > would someone mail me the missing code (if it isn't copyrighted.) The PB and PE postscript commands are indeed doing some setup. This is the way psdit program handles inbedded postscipt in the troff stream. And yes, this code is copyrighted since psdit and associated postscript code comes with the TranScript package from Adobe Inc. The code won't do you that much good anyway, since it depends also on the prologue as used by psdit. The only advise I can give is that you should consult your documentation for tpscript to find out whether they have a way to push raw postscipt through troff. If so, they are bound to have some setup commands as well. We don't have tpscript here, so I'm afraid that you are on your own on this one. If you get it to work, send your results, so other users of tpscript might use it. Good luck and happy postscript hacking. jaap
grahamd@otc.otca.oz.AU (10/25/89)
We too do not run the Adobe transcript package but some other funny package. In the previous version of Andrew I was able to hack everything so that it worked okay and probably will be able to in this version as well. We would rather get the Adobe Transcript package so this isn't necessary but cannot seem to get hold of a contact address or phone number. Do you have an email address, real address, phone or fax number where we can get hold of them. (In the states is fine). Graham Dumpleton (grahamd@otc.otca.oz.au)