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From: evan@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Evan Kirshenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: ASCII to Postscript ($$) (yes, again)
Message-ID: <4036@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 25 May 88 00:04:15 GMT
References: <2221@epiwrl.EPI.COM>
Reply-To: evan@csli.UUCP (Evan Kirshenbaum)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <2221@epiwrl.EPI.COM> shore@epiwrl.EPI.COM (John Shore) writes:
>
>I need an ASCII to postscript filter (for an Apple LW on a Sun) with the
>following characteristics (asterisk means desirable but not a must):
>
>    - does simple pagination
>    - allows global choice of font and size
>    - works with standard I/O
>    - page headers (*)
>    - landscape mode (*)
>
>This is a subset of enscript (part of the Transcript package).  Indeed, 
>I would like to use enscript, and (gosh) I'm willing to pay for it, 
>but Adobe won't sell it separately from Transcript.  I don't need the 
>rest of Transcript's programs, and I can't afford the whole package.  
>A couple of hundred dollars is what I had in mind.  
>

>Several people have told me that there's no decent program on the 
>market because there are too many free programs floating around that
>almost do it right.  So here I am, ready to pay, but nothing to buy.  
>
>

>- John Shore  shore@wrl.EPI.COM
>	      ...uunet!wrl.epi.com!shore

Well, I've written a free program that almost does it right.  It
doesn't allow you to change the font/size, and there is a slight
problem with long filenames in the headers overlapping the print date
(which I'm going to fix in the next day or so), but the output looks
pretty good.  I've used it from several different machines running
Unix (including a Sun), and never had it bomb.

I was planning on adding a couple of features like font selection and
header format selection soon, but if anybody would like to try it as
it is, I'd be willing to send them a copy.  If there's enough
interest, I'll post it.  (It's about 2.5k, mostly a PostScript
prologue.)

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Evan Kirshenbaum
Stanford University
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