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Subject: Re: troff to postcript converter
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Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 14:43:17 EST
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I just got in the mail an announcement of a product called *devps*
to convert troff to postscript.  devps claims to do everything that
transcript does, plus some additional.  Here are the claims for
additionality:

	Feature					Transcript	devps
full support of ditroff special chars			no	yes
downloaoable postscript fonts			somewhat	yes
merge and scale of Mac graphics				no	yes
programs to do labels, envelopes, slides		no	yes
troff macros for shading, outlined, rotated text	no	yes
single-system source code			$1,795		$495
multi-system source code			$2,950		$895

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