Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu!icarus!kaul From: kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Roff Message-ID: Date: 18 Sep 90 14:05:27 GMT References: Sender: news@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu Distribution: comp Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: icarus In-reply-to: suran@nff.ncl.omron.co.jp's message of 17 Sep 90 00:34:47 GMT Originator: kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu Would anyone know how to get a postscript file from the unix document formatter, roff? I need a postscript file so that I can get a hardcopy of my documents out on a postscript printer. There are two good choices. First, you can get Adobe Transcript. A site license runs about $3000 and is a far better deal than Sun's $2000 per machine for a *binary* copy. It might be worth it if you want a company to stand behind its product and need someone to blame when, not if, things go wrong ;-). If you don't need so much hand-holding, GNU's groff is a slightly better solution. It has things like GNU clones of eqn, pic, tbl, etc., generates PostScript, DVI, or other formats, and comes with X11 previewers. Best of all, it's got the right price (free). The only gotcha with groff is that you have to have a C++ compiler, but GNU also has g++, a free C++ compiler that's quite good. Having both Transcript and groff installed, I tend to use the GNU product. Groff is available for anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu and tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (amoung other places) and anonymous uucp from osu-cis. -rich -- Rich Kaul | It wouldn't be research if we kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu | knew what we were doing.