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From: paul%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Paul Placeway)
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Subject: Re: Postscript: How to produce it
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Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 17:10:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 17:10:49 1987
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In article <1987Jul29.085018.1872@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> romwa@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Mark Dornfeld) writes:
>In article <6188@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>> In article <178@qetzal.UUCP> rcw@qetzal.UUCP (sysop) writes:
>> >need to support postscript.
>> >1. Does anyone have a postprocessor to process troff output?
>> Try Adobe Systems "TranScript".
>> >3. Are there any vendors out there who can help?
>> Try SoftQuad in Toronto.
>
>It is certainly worth trying SoftQuad, but they have
>significantly changed the intermediate "Context" language in
>ditroff so that it is not the same as "old ditroff". Therefore
>the postprocessors that they support are based on their
>Context Language.  Perhaps they still do postprocessors for
>standard ditroff.
>
>Mark T. Dornfeld
>Royal Ontario Museum
>
>utgpu!rom!mark

SoftQuad has another interesting problem: They want $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
(as in many, many, many dollars) for their product.  If you want to
run on more than one machine, or more than one printer, it is just too
expensive.  Also, their pricing schedule seems to be based on how
expensive the computer and printer in question are.  For instance, if
you are running on a 3b20, your binary will cost at least twice as
much as for a 3b2.  Also, the price for a 3b2 varies with the options
that are on it.  It is my _personal_ opinion that pricing like this is
absurd, considering that a givin 3b2 binary will run on a 3b20 too.

Needless to say, the CIS dept. here at Ohio State bought TranScript.
Not only did we get a very nice PostScript troff package, but we got a
bunch of other goodies besides.  The license didn't cost us a fortune,
either.

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