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From: exnirad@brolga.cc.uq.oz (Nirad Sharma)
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Subject: Re: Wanted a troff to postscript converter
Keywords: troff postscript
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Date: 4 Mar 90 05:52:02 GMT
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martin@mqcomp.oz (Martin Foord) writes:

>Does anyone out there have a troff to postscript converter that is
>fairly reliable. I extracted from the net `thack' several months ago,
>but this has proved to be fairly bug ridden and not very powerful.
>Is `psroff' a public domain troff to postscript ?

We have been using psroff for about a month now and it has given us no
problems. It seems to work quite happily with the CAT troff on our XENIX
machine and handles all the tbl and eqn codes that it has been fed.

  There is one problem, though. The logical PostScript page is shifted down
a bit. I assume this is due to psroff being set up for the American legal
paper or whatever. This is especially noticeable with man pages where the page
nmber at the bottom is left off. Otherwise, everything in psroff seems fine.
Anyone who has a fix for this - HELP !

  If it is of any help, psroff also has the ability to convert CAT troff output
to ditroff (Device-independent troff). When this ouput is piped to a version
of tpscript (a ditroff - PostScript converter) modified by our Computer Science
department here the page placement is perfect (but tbl line placements do not
meet perfectly - alas). Has anyone similarly modified psroff for correct page
placement ?

Any help would be appreciated.

Nirad (exnirad@brolga.cc.uq.oz)