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From: brianc@daedalus (Brian Colfer)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Ditroff and Postscript
Message-ID: <1164@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 88 17:22:14 GMT
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Keywords: ditroff PostScript postsc
Summary: postsc does a great job.
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In article <262@elan.UUCP> kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) writes:
>From article <764@bucket.UUCP>, by patti@bucket.UUCP (Patti Beadles):
>> 
>> Nobody knows how to do it without us having to
>> spend $1800 for a Transcript source license.
>
>There are less expensive (and more functional) solutions
>than Transcript from:
>
>A package called Eroff is a supported DWB package with LaserJet
>and PostScript support.  PostScript driver-only is also available.

As a good alternative to either of these products Postsc does a great
job of combining the best of Eroff, Transcript and devps postprocessors
as well as giving all the functionallity of psfig.  Postsc gives you
faithful ditroff output and allows for including  
		 (1) PostScript images, 
         (2) PostScript programs to manipulate ditroff text or images, and
		 (3) easy commands to do simple PostScript manipulations
			 like mixing landscape and portrait orientations on a
			 single page.

Send me UUCP mail ucbvax!cgl!brianc or brianc@cgl.ucsf.edu and I'll
forward the manual page and the address/phone for more info.

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