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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Importing postscript in troff
Keywords: postscript, troff, .so
Message-ID: <277@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 90 18:36:26 GMT
References: <413@wmt.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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In article <413@wmt.UUCP> mist@wmt.UUCP (Michiel Steltman) writes:
<++ Who can help me on this one ++
<
<We print troff documents on postscript devices, on a lot of different
<machines in our network: SUN's, sequent, apollo, vax, and more. 
<Now I would like to include postscript (for non pic-pictures) etc. in a troff
<file, so that it flows uninterpreted into the same output. ( We use
<troff | pscat | lpr ... ). I realize we could patch the postscript directly
<into the pscat output, but I think there must be an easier way, using 
<the .so command of a file with some tricks...

The answer is NO, you can't do it from within troff.  You must have AT&T's
Documentor's Workbench 2.0+, or compatible.  The reason why you can't is
because the output is for the C/A/T phototypesetter, which is a binary type
code, non-ASCII.  It doesn't contain any features that allow codes to be
passed from troff to pscat.  The output of pscat must be edited directly
and the code installed.  Even then you have to be careful, as the scaling
is different and you MUST place your stuff in the right place or it will be
all messed up.  I know, I've been through this with a Star Trek program
guide that I post to the net.

Pscat just wasn't designed for PostScript inclusion, psdit was.
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