Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: devps vs. Transcript Message-ID: <2796@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 22:50:40 EDT Article-I.D.: vdsvax.2796 Posted: Mon Oct 19 22:50:40 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Oct-87 01:28:42 EDT References: <2660@dalcs.UUCP> <99600003@labsms.UUCP> Reply-To: barnett@steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 27 In article <99600003@labsms.UUCP> lmm@labsms.UUCP writes: |When printing troff documents, Devps gives you a lot more capabilities |than what I've been able to do with Transcript. | |ie: downloadable fonts | inclusion of Macpaint documents | inclusion of PostScript code in a troff document. | Fancy macros to do shading, rotation, etc on text. I don't have devps, but I have installed the recently released psfig (check comp.sources.unix). This allows similar things, but I have having to go through some gyrations to get the fancy stuff, like outlined fonts, downloadable fonts (I want the Berkeley Versatec Fonts), and the other goodies. So with ditroff and transcript and psfig - the packages are *somewhat* comparable. It can do MacPaint documents, Postscript diagrams, etc. You may also need bbfig - which is a small postscript/shell script that shows you the bounding box for the postscript diagram you want to print. Perhaps someone who is familiar with devps and ditroff/psfig can comment on the advantages/disadvantages of each? -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!steinmetz!barnett