Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: HPLaserJetII(I) for troff?
Message-ID: <875@ecicrl.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 90 17:50:37 GMT
References: <100@rc6.urc.tue.nl>
Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <100@rc6.urc.tue.nl> rcpt@urc.tue.nl writes:
>I would like to know how a HPLaserJetII(I) printer can be connected to a
>UNIX machine so that troff (and ASCII) files can be printed easily. Are
>there (PD?) filters to convert old-troff and di-troff output to PCL
>(the code wanted by the HPLasetJetII(I))? 

jetroff from PC Research, will generate HPPCL from ditroff.  A shareware
version was posted to comp.sources.unix about 2 years back.  It can
use both HP SFP and TeX PK font files.  For information on the non-shareware
version, contact Rick Richardson (uunet!pcrat!rick) for more information.
This is a very good package.  The non-shareware version's price is extremely
reasonable.  I recommend it highly.

Psroff 2.0 will generate HPPCL or Postscript or ditroff from old-troff
(CAT troff) and is free.  It will work with HP SFP and TeX PK font files
too.  It is available by anon ftp via:

	- gatekeeper.dec.com (16.1.0.2) as anonymous,
	  file /pub/misc/psroff-2.0.tar.Z,
	  courtesy Paul Vixie (vixie@wrl.dec.com)
	- cs.toronto.edu as anonymous,
	  file pub/psroff.tar.Z,
	  pub/psroff.patch[1-2].Z,
	  courtesy Mark Moraes (moraes@cs.toronto.edu)

It's also in the queue to go out on comp.sources.unix.  I recommend
it highly (after all, I wrote it ;-) too.
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