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From: garvey@johnny5.uucp (Joe Garvey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Postscript Printer Interface
Summary: transcript is obsolete, newsprint replaced it
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.062833.10961@johnny5.uucp>
Date: 7 Jun 91 06:28:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: johnny5.1991Jun7.062833.10961
References: <88937784D5.52.123460000@kesrith.uucp> <17921@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
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In article <17921@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, wrp@PRC.Unisys.COM (William R. Pringle) writes:
> In article <88937784D5.52.123460000@kesrith.uucp> rjbeeth@kesrith.uucp (Rick Beetham) writes:
> >A friend of mine is trying to get a postscript printer working with
> >his SUN SparcStation. He has got the machine talking to the printer
> >and if he puts the printer into Emulation mode (LASERJET, PROPRINTER
> >etc) he has no problem getting output.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Your printer is probably fine.  You aren't sending it postscript encoded
> files, that's all.  You have to convert text files to postscript.
> 
> Sun has a package called transcript which provides postscript support for
> troff and text files.  One of the programs is enscript, which converts a
> text file into postscript.  These are all available to the normal user.

Transcript is an Adobe product. Sun resells/licenses it. They have since
replaced it with Newsprint. It costs a lot less, and is a lot more intellingent
about figuring out which filters to use. Some of it is netware.

Hope this helps.

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