Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!rex!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: nroff to postscript? Message-ID: Date: 5 Nov 90 15:29:28 GMT References: <6504@bgsuvax.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: jmiller@bgsuvax.UUCP's message of 1 Nov 90 19:42:39 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: colossus.cs.psu.edu In article <6504@bgsuvax.UUCP> jmiller@bgsuvax.UUCP (Jim Miller) writes: Jim> Please forgive if this has been asked before. Jim> I am looking for a package to convert nroff documents to postscript for printing Jim> on a LaserWriter IINTX. I am interested mainly in printing UNIX manual pages. Jim> I have tried things like "nroff -man whatever.l | text2ps > whatever.ps" but Jim> the results are not quite acceptable. "text2ps" is a simple text to postscript Jim> converter; I have also tried the "lwf" program. Jim> Any help/pointers/suggestions will be very much appreciated. Reply by mail Jim> will be fine unless you think it would be of general interest. Get the groff package from the Free Software Foundation. It is a freely redistributable version of the DWB. It can be retirved via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu and is found in the /u/emacs directory in the file groff.0.6-tar.Z. -- Dan Ehrlich -- Dan Ehrlich - Sr. Systems Programmer - Penn State Computer Science /Voice: +1 814 863 1142/FAX: +1 814 865 3176