Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Path: utzoo!telly!evan From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) Subject: Re: alternatives to Adobe's Transcript? Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1991 01:14:17 GMT Message-ID: <286E81F3.2635@telly.on.ca> References: In article khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) writes: >Adobe's current prices for the Transcript package for printing to PS >printers from Unix are too high for our budget. >Are there approximately equivalent packages from other sources? >We're interested primarily in: > - printing ordinary Unix text files to PS printers, > with about the same bells and whistles as you would > get with vanilla pr and lpr > - spooling PS files to PS printers (i.e., files whose > first bytes are: %! Almost everything you've described is shipped with the basic UNIX System V Release 4. Using the 'filter' mechanism of the lp subsystem, you can print ASCII files, troff and PostScript with a minimum of fuss. PostScript support is explicitly built in and documented in the generic Release 4 System Administrator's Guide. > - printing Unix man pages (we don't have ditroff, just > plain [nt]roff) The Release 4 included filters work with ditroff. You might want to consider something like freely-available psroff, which converts old-troff output either to ditroff or PS output. -- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504 "MS-DOS 4.0 was a ... learning experience" - Bill Gates, introducing DOS 5