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From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: DITROFF ==> HP Laserjet (Deskjet) Converter
Keywords: needed troff - deskjet converter/driver
Message-ID: <561@pan.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 89 10:46:49 GMT
References: <2562@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <1989Aug22.133805.26740@cs.eur.nl>
Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland
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In article <1989Aug22.133805.26740@cs.eur.nl> reino@cs.eur.nl (Reino de Boer) writes:
>dworkin@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Ira M. Dworkin) writes:
>
>>Does anyone have a troff driver for the HP deskjet
>>printers (to be used with ditroff)
>
>I'd like to know if there are other ditroff-->HP Laserjet II products
>available besides the Elan Eroff package.

If you already have ditroff, you should look very seriously at JetRoff
from PC Research (uunet!pcrat!jetroff).  The price is about $100, which
is much better than the thousands that Elan, Xroff, SoftQuad and others
charge, and for the specific case of driving a LaserJet (Plus or II), I
find it to be much, much better than any of the other (high-priced) ones.

I am in Europe, and I have no difficulty at all with support or updates
from PC Research.  The original JetRoff, which was posted to the net some
time ago, supported only LaserJet II and compatible printers (and had a
lot of problems at that).  But Rick Richardson has done an excellent job
of fixing and upgrading it over the past year.  It now handles LaserJet
Plus and II printers with no trouble, and even handles quite a few clones
that are seriously brain-damaged.  The latest release has what looks like
the beginnings of DeskJet support in it, as well.  Also, JetRoff lets you
use whatever fonts you want; it comes with a good basic set, it supports
internal and cartridge fonts, and it supports LaserJet soft fonts from
other suppliers; I have a couple of sets here that total several hundred
different typefaces.

jw