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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Postscript and troff
Message-ID: <785@ssc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 11:54:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: ssc.785
Posted: Tue Oct 13 11:54:17 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Oct-87 21:36:13 EDT
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Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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Summary: transcript and devps

In article <1005@bc-cis.UUCP>, raanan@bc-cis.UUCP (Raanan Herrmann) writes:
> 	What products/software exist make `troff` print on a Postscript
> type of laser printer. We have an Imagen laser printer that has an iterface
> to `troff` through software that came with it, but now we want to connect
> an Apple laser-printer to the computer and to print troff papers on it too.
> We are running 4.2 BSD Unix on a VAX 780/11.

Two products that translate the output of troff to PostScript are transcript
and devps.

Transcript is written by Adobe (the creator of PostScript) and has filters
for both old troff and ditroff.

Devps is written by Pipeline Associates.  There are two flavors available.
The one which has existed for quite a while is for use with ditroff.  A
new product, cat2dit, is available that translates old troff output into
the DVI intermediate files for processing by devps.

We have been using (and, in fact, selling) both of these packages.  We
have used both of them in the production of our catalogs, marketing
fliers and products (we publish UNIX reference booklets).  Both do what
they claim to do.  You can contact me if you need any further comparison
information.

There are a number of companies that sell the ATT DWB package (ditroff
and a lot more) and filters for PostScript.  The first two that
come to mind are SoftQuad (in Toronto I believe) and Elan (in the bay
area).  If you don't have ditroff and feel you need it, these are the
places to shop.
-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549,       
Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX  or (206)527-3385 
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