Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!eci386!clewis
From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: phototypesetter for xenix?
Message-ID: <1989Jun14.152414.5703@eci386.uucp>
Date: 14 Jun 89 15:24:14 GMT
References: <7428@aimed.UUCP> <758@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
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In article <758@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
|In article <7428@aimed.UUCP> nick@aimed.UUCP (Nick Pemberton) writes:
|| We have a LASERPRO Silver Express Laser printer here, which through
|| some nasty wiring is now hooked to our xenix system. It has several
|	[ ... ]
|
|| Does anyone out there know how to configure troff to use this printer?
|
|  If the printer will do postscript there are two troff to PostScript
|programs, the PD "thack" (say t-hack) and the Adobe "pscat." pscat seems
|to do a better job, but it costs (I think the site license for troff and
|ditroff programs is about $1k). thack was on the net a week or so ago,
|and is pretty decent.
|
|  Of course if the printer is not PostScript you will have to go another
|route. Elan software sells a xenix version of troff called EROFF, which
|is ditroff and supports the LaserJet and/or a number of other printers.

My new troff2lj and troff2ps packages (CAT -> HPLJ and CAT -> Postscript)
should be arriving in comp.sources.unix shortly.
-- 
Chris Lewis, R.H. Lathwell & Associates: Elegant Communications Inc.
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