Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!haven!aplcen!wb3ffv!tcsc3b2!pag From: pag@tcsc3b2.UUCP (Philip A. Gross) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Options for getting Postscript from troff Summary: printing troff on a PostScript (tm) laser printer Message-ID: <339@tcsc3b2.UUCP> Date: 17 Jan 89 18:28:45 GMT References: <144@qusunb.queensu.CA> Distribution: na Organization: The Computer Solution Co., Inc. of VA Lines: 62 In article <144@qusunb.queensu.CA>, jorgnsn@qucis.queensu.CA (John Jorgensen) writes: > I'm exploring the various ways to print troff files on a > Postscript printer. [...stuff deleted...] > what that is and where I can get it? Are there other > alternatives entirely? > An excellent product that we use is a package called TranScript by Adobe Systems, Inc. (the authors of PostScript) Their address is: ADOBE Systems, Inc. 1870 Embarcadero Rd. Suite 100 Palo Alto, CA 94303 1/800/344-8335 The TranScript product can take standard ascii files and convert the following into PostScript output for a PostScript printer: ascii ditroff (device independent troff) troff nroff TEK4014 diablo 630 print files plot(5) files (May not exist in newer Unix releases) There are also several programs which are supplied which provide the ability to print ascii files rotated, different font sizes and styles and a neat program called psrev which will reverse the output so that the last page comes out first and the first page last (ie, no collating) required. As part of the installation of the software, it will go ahead and set up a lp destination that understands the PostScript printer so that all you have to do to print a file is type: lp Licenses are available for both binary and source. ** PostScript and TranScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. ========================================+====================================== Philip A. Gross | The Computer Solution Co., Inc. | I haven't heard what I have 1009 Sycamore Square, P.O. Box 716 | to say about that yet. Midlothian, VA 23113-0716 | Voice: (804)794-3491 | ----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- INTERNET: pag%tcsc3b2@wb3ffv.ampr.org USENET: ...!ames!haven!aplcen!wb3ffv!tcsc3b2!pag UUCP: tcsc3b2!pag (804)794-1514 ATTMAIL: attmail!tcsc3b2!pag ******************************************************************************* The opinions expressed here are strictly mine and nobody elses. ===============================================================================