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From: patti@bucket.UUCP (Patti Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Ditroff and Postscript
Message-ID: <764@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 03:38:26 GMT
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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Keywords: argh!

Brand new job:  Assignment number one on Monday morning was to take the
LaserWriter they'd bought and hook it up to the Xeniix box so that they
can run their ditroff output to it.  List of people who might be able
to help was kindly included.

After chasing down numberous references, nobody in the company knows
how to do it.  Actually, nobody knows how to do it without us having to
spend $1800 for a Transcript source license.  Which isn't out of the
question, but we'd like to avoid it if at all possible.

There has to be some way to do this.  Since it's supposedly device-
independent, my hunch would be that there's a relatively simple filter
available somewhere to do it.  But I know next to nothing about ditroff
(or *roff), and about that much about PostScript.  Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
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