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From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Landscape printing under (di)troff/PostScript
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Date: 22 Jun 89 21:34:10 GMT
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In article <2115@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>Maybe Adobe can answer why the latest (?) version on Transcript that I
>received at my old job (end of March), version 2.1, has a manual that is
>notated as Sun Release 3.2 - Last change: 14 July 1987, when we bought
>the stuff for the Vax 11/750, 4.3BSD.
>
>The psroff section has no mention of the -L or -M options.  Here at my
>new job, the online manual has the same problem, as it is exactly the
>same software release.
>
>Explanation would be appreciated.

Here's my understanding of the situation:

Adobe developed and sells TranScript.  Adobe also lets other people
re-sell TranScript through an OEM agreement.  One of these vendors is
Sun Microsystems, who therefore also sells TranScript.

Sun has added to the basic TranScript package in a couple of places.
For example, I believe they offer a filter to convert Sun raster files
to PostScript (I think it used to be called "pssun", but I'm probably
mistaken about that).

I believe that the -L switch for the psroff program was also an
extension made by Sun, and it is therefore only available from them.  I
believe it is on our list of future enhancements, but the currently
shipping version of TranScript from Adobe does not support it.

Therefore, if you bought TranScript from Sun, you would see the -L
switch in your man page, but if you bought it from Adobe, you may
not.

This may not be an accurate history in every detail, but it is
basically the situation.  I hope this helps clarify things a bit.

Glenn Reid
Adobe Sytems