raj@pollux.geog.ucsb.edu (Richard A Johnson) (02/02/91)
I can't find a way to make troff on the RS/6000 produce the standard C/A/T Phototypesetter files which it produces on every other version of Unix! Apparently IBM has changed this command SIGNIFICANTLY! Is there a way to get C/A/T Phototypesetter output from troff? Lacking that, is there a way to get a standard Postscript file from troff? ANY help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard A. Johnson raj@topdog.ucsb.edu (Internet) NCGIA Computing Resources Manager ucbvax!ucivax!raj (UUCP) U. C. Santa Barbara raj@ncgia.ucsb.edu (via Nameservers)
scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt) (02/02/91)
In article <8709@hub.ucsb.edu> raj@pollux.geog.ucsb.edu (Richard A Johnson) writes: >I can't find a way to make troff on the RS/6000 produce the standard C/A/T >Phototypesetter files which it produces on every other version of Unix! >Apparently IBM has changed this command SIGNIFICANTLY! IBM did not change troff - AT&T did - many years ago. The versions of troff which produce C/A/T output are archaic at best. Some (probably inacurate) historical perspective. The version of troff which produced C/A/T output was originally released with version 7 UNIX and eventually became a standard feature of BSD. Its remained with that system ever since and continues to be release with BSD based systems such as Sun OS. A number of years ago (1984?), AT&T rewrote troff and bundled it with a product called "Documenter's Workbench": troff, nroff, pic, grap, enq & tbl plus macros. This version produces device independent output which must be filtered through a driver to produce output for a particular output device. This implementation is commonly known as ditroff. Though officially an unbundled AT&T product, a number of vendors include it with their System V based systems - IBM and Apple come to mind. > >Is there a way to get C/A/T Phototypesetter output from troff? >Lacking that, is there a way to get a standard Postscript file from troff? > >ANY help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED! Unless someone wrote a C/A/T driver for ditroff, I doubt it - I have heard that there have not been any C/A/T devices sold since the late 70's anyway. A number of ditroff drivers for various output devices are sold. The most famous is probably Transcript from Adobe. Being that is from Adobe, you can probably guess what it does - PostScript. In addition to Transcript, a package called devps is (was?) sold by a company called Pipeline Associates. Lastly, a number of vendors have licensed and enhanced Documenter's Workbench - Elan and Image Network come to mind. There was an article in UNIX Review about a year or more ago which reviewed the various packages. - Scott -- This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Scott Holt Internet: scott@prism.gatech.edu Georgia Tech UUCP: ..!gatech!prism!scott Office of Information Technology, Technical Services
3003jalp@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Applied Magnetics) (02/05/91)
In article <21022@hydra.gatech.EDU> scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt) writes: >[...] A number of ditroff drivers for various output devices are sold. >The most famous is probably Transcript from Adobe. [...] When I called Adobe several months ago, they would only sell me a 9-track tape. No QICs. I'm on freeware now. Long live the net! --Pierre Asselin, R&D, Applied Magnetics Corp. I speak for me.
slh@wolf.cs.washington.edu (Scott Heyano) (02/05/91)
In article <8709@hub.ucsb.edu> raj@pollux.geog.ucsb.edu (Richard A Johnson) writes: |I can't find a way to make troff on the RS/6000 produce the standard C/A/T |Phototypesetter files which it produces on every other version of Unix! |Apparently IBM has changed this command SIGNIFICANTLY! | |Is there a way to get C/A/T Phototypesetter output from troff? |Lacking that, is there a way to get a standard Postscript file from troff? | The troff on rs/6000 is ditroff (device-independent troff). I couldn't find a way to get it output normal troff, though I guess if you could put together a device descr file you could. I think there are other version of unix that don't have old troff either. If gcc is running on aix or will run on aix then you could get g++ and then groff, which produces postscript (CAT files too?). Also, there should be some pd troff's. Of course, none of these "solutions" is easy.