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From: jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Novice looking for troff -> postscript conversion
Keywords: troff DWBII
Message-ID: <864@jonlab.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 90 14:31:20 GMT
Organization: 4455 Province Line Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540
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If I'm so novice here, I apologize.

I recently acquired a laser printer (Texas Instruments) that is
both HP II and PostScript compatible.

For most of my text processing I use troff.  I have DWB II for my
computer and JetRoff shareware for printing in HP mode.  However,
I would like to do some of the fancier things available in PS.

Thus, two questions:

  1. What troff -> PostScript converters are available?  Note, I
     am using an AT&T 3B1, so probably there is not much commercial
     software for this system.

  2. Given that I am using a stock troff (ditroff), how do I reference
     the myriad fonts available with PS using the 2 character limits
     in troff?

Thanks for your help,

Jon

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Jon LaBadie
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