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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Landscape printing under (di)troff/PostScript
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Date: 22 Jun 89 17:16:41 GMT
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In article <22501@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> hess@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Caleb Hess) writes:
>I just checked our new (TranScript 2.1) psdit.c.  It claims to be 
>Revision 2.2 87/11/17, with Revision 2.1.1.8 87/07/08 and Revision 2.1.1.9
>87/11/12.  There is no mention of psfig, and a revision on 87/10/13 should
>have appeared between 2.1.1.8 and 2.1.1.9.  
>
>We would find both psfig support and landscape mode useful (and while we're
>at it, a legal-size paper option, although I've already hacked that in).

Psfig was developed by Ned Batchelder and Trevor Darrel at the
University of Pennsylvania's Computer and Information Science
department. The documentation lists the author's current address as
DEC in Maynard, Massachusetts, and states that inquiries may be
addressed to trevor@linc.cis.upenn.edu, and that psfig will be
available as part of future releases of Transcript from Adobe as well
as through uucp/ftp distribution.

The README file in /usr/local/src/psfig states:

   All source code, documentation and related files are Copyright (C) 1987
   by Trevor Darrell. All rights reserved. This software may not be distributed
   on a for-profit basis in any way without express written permission of the
   author(s).

Installing psfig requires ditroff, the source to psdit, and
(optionally) source to ditroff. However, if Adobe is distributing it,
the patched psdit should be available directly.


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