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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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Subject: Re: PostScript printing without Transcript?
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Date: 10 Jan 90 15:48:10 GMT
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In article <4185@brazos.Rice.edu> mmsac!david@sacto.west.sun.com (David Kensiski) writes:
>
>> The 2 obvious things one might miss from the Transcript package
>> ("LaserWriter Interface Kit") are ptroff & the raster-to-PS filter.
>> Anything else essential?
>
>Well, the obvious thing that is missing is enscript, the filter that
>generates PostScript from a flat ASCII file.  There may be a PD version of
>enscript out there, but without it, all you will be able to print are
>PostScript documents.

That's not true. If you have the transcript package, you can print ASCII files
just fine on your postscript printer. To print a file that is already in
postscript format, you must make sure the first line of the file is '%!'.

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