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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: drawings -< pic, laserjet, postscript??
Message-ID: <478@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 90 18:16:12 GMT
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Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <3831@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>, rcd@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (rana.c.dutt) writes:

> The drawing tools in Pagestream 1.8 are very good. After you're done,
> you simply load the printer driver you want from Pagestream's wide
> selection of output modules, which includes the HP Laserjet and Postscript.
> I have both the HP Deskjet and the Paintjet, and the output quality on both
> is excellent. 

> If you want to merge these drawings into troff documents, I suggest you
> convert your troff output to postscript first, with a postscript
> post-processor. Then merge the postscript generated from Pagestream into it.


Actually, you can just include the postscript into troff input.
By adding a \! prefix, troff will just pass it thru to the typesetter.
I use this feature all the time to produce overheads for my
UNIX classes.  I produce postscript with Publishing Partner and
then use a make file on the UNIX system to handle the preprocessing
of the postscript to add the prefixes (and strip out garbage generated by
PP.  I use a macro in my troff source to include the postscript file and
tell troff how much space the figure will take.  I am using devps to drive
the postscript printer or typesetter from troff.

-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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