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Subject: Transcript on Laserwriter
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 18:09:18 EST
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From: Ken Mandelberg <km%emory.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>


Does anyone have any experience with Adobe's "Transcript" for
postscript printers? Transcript is a Unix package of filters
that allow printing of a variety of output on Postscript
printers, including the Apple Laserwriter.
It is supposed to support ditroff/troff(CAT)/plot/raster files
on 4.2BSD. It sounds good.

It also handles diabalo 630 files, so it would seem that
Transcript should allow a Vax to do spooling for itself,
as well as a variety of PCs that can produce WP output files
for a diabalo, and download them to the Vax.

Actually, the only thing I don't see how to do is print off
a Macintosh without disconnecting the Vax manually. 

Apple is offering a good discount on the Laserwriter to
universities in their consortium. It looks to me like the
Laserwriter/Transcript combination provides a very affordable
Troff Unix printer with very little limitation (except for
volume of output). The HP seems much more limited for not
that much less money. 

Any comments?