matt@karazm.math.uh.edu (Matt Emerson) (04/15/91)
I'd like some pointers on how to make Info print articles in PostScript format so they'd look really nice. The rs/6000 is set up to print to a remote LaserWriter whose print queue resides on a Sun. TFM seemed to indicate that I needed to set up some sort of thingy called a virtual printer to inform the system of the printer's capabilities. I can lpr PostScript files with no problem, but can't talk info into printing (other than in ugly courier). And while I'm pestering everyone, how can I make troff produce PostScript? If the answers to these questions are in the printed manuals, I apologize; we don't have any yet. (Thank goodness for those bsd papers in /usr/lpp/bos!) -- Matt Emerson matt@karazm.math.uh.edu
woan@nowhere (Ronald S Woan) (04/15/91)
In article <1991Apr14.230938.17820@menudo.uh.edu> matt@karazm.math.uh.edu (Matt Emerson) writes: >I'd like some pointers on how to make Info print articles in PostScript >format so they'd look really nice. The rs/6000 is set up to print to a >remote LaserWriter whose print queue resides on a Sun. > >TFM seemed to indicate that I needed to set up some sort of thingy called >a virtual printer to inform the system of the printer's capabilities. I can >lpr PostScript files with no problem, but can't talk info into printing >(other than in ugly courier). I think someone worked this out a while back by using a printing backend that piped the printer output through a better ascii->PS filter prior to sending it to the printer... I haven't gotten around to doing it yet, so I can't be more specific. >And while I'm pestering everyone, how can I make troff produce PostScript? Adobe transcript (psroff) comes with the ICRB update (3005). Of course, Chris Lewis's freeware psroff now supports ditroff, and I suppose that you could port GNU groff if you were so inclined, as well. -- +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@cactus.org or woan@austin.vnet.ibm.com + + other email addresses Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +
david@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (David Berkowitz) (04/16/91)
In article <3770@d75.UUCP>, woan@nowhere (Ronald S Woan) writes: |> In article <1991Apr14.230938.17820@menudo.uh.edu> |> matt@karazm.math.uh.edu (Matt Emerson) writes: |> >I'd like some pointers on how to make Info print articles in |> PostScript |> >format so they'd look really nice. The rs/6000 is set up to print |> to a |> >remote LaserWriter whose print queue resides on a Sun. |> |> I think someone worked this out a while back by using a printing |> backend that piped the printer output through a better ascii->PS |> filter prior to sending it to the printer... I haven't gotten around |> to doing it yet, so I can't be more specific. Well I was wrong about the comet, but I think perhaps, maybe the orignal poster was looking for formatted printing, not simply a single-font print that happened to come out of a PS printer. I think what Matt is looking for is a "pretty print" function - one that preserves all that nice text formatting done in the text windows of InfoExplorer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Berkowitz uunet!ibmsupt!david (415) 855-4485 | | Take off your shoes. IBM Personal Systems Programming, Palo Alto | for industry! This does not represent an official IBM position. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------