ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) (05/17/91)
Hi Netters, I was wondering if anyone out there had UNIX/C source for a utility that converts ANSI files to Postscript. I have need of such a beast. Thanx in advance ant V ant "I killed Laura Palmer" \o/ ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au -O- Anthony Murdoch Prentice Centre /0\ Phone (07) 36 54078 University of Qld -- V ant "I killed Laura Palmer" \o/ ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au -O- Anthony Murdoch Prentice Centre /0\ Phone (07) 36 54078 University of Qld
ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) (05/18/91)
ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) writes: >I was wondering if anyone out there had UNIX/C source for a utility that >converts ANSI files to Postscript. I have need of such a beast. > Hi Guys 'n Girls, It's me again with a clarification. I do know what ANSI is. I did not mean ASCII, I did mean ANSI. A breif description of why I want it follows; I have some software that allows you to define simple escape sequences to put into reports to do things like : Underline On, Underline Off, Pitch 10, Pitch 12, Compress On, Compress Off, Enlarge On, Enlarge Off, Start 6 lpi, Start 8 lpi, Bold On, Bold Off, So, I want to be able to define some escape sequences and have this software pipe it through a shell script that does the conversions. After playing with it for a while, I have something that works reasonably well using ptroff, but I can't have underline. My first thoughts were, get something that converts between say ANSI and postscript and use ANSI escape sequences. The same would work for say Epson FX escape sequences, but the only FX->PS converter I have seen was for MS-DOS. Since then I have been wondering if it is possible to do it all in postscript. I have a fairly short PS program (thanx to Carl J Lydick) that you can prepend to text to get it to print. I feel confident that this can be made to control characters to do the functions above, but I don't know enough postscript to do it (it took me half an hour to understand the <10 lines of code as it was :) If anyone can five me some suggestions, I would be gratefull. Ant -- V ant "I killed Laura Palmer" \o/ ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au -O- Anthony Murdoch Prentice Centre /0\ Phone (07) 36 54078 University of Qld