Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!liv-cs!mdb From: mdb@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: troff and transcript Message-ID: <1990Aug1.101236.13158@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> Date: 1 Aug 90 09:12:35 GMT References: Organization: Computer Science CSMVAX, Liverpool University Lines: 22 In article , tpn+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Neuendorffer) writes: >> Wouldn't another *roff clone work as well? How's Transcript required? We use ditroff and the jetroff package (which is freely available) to print on HP Laserjets from Andrew with no problems. By default, jetroff uses the Tex fonts, which do not match well with the internal Andrew fonts, but it is not difficult to replace them with HP's own soft fonts, which do give highly satisfactory results. This method does not allow you to print raster or zip images, which is a nuisance, since all the pretty diagrams in help documents etc., must be dumped directly from the screen display. I have not really looked at it, but it might be possible to convert the postscript bit images into Laserjet images (they are after all mostly just bitmaps), and then pass them through jetroff. This would then provide another printing mechanism for those without ready access to postscript printers. Martin Beer, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.