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Article #3579Re: nroff to postscript?
From: Chris Lewis
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 18:54
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 18:54
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In article <Fe_qf+$2@cs.psu.edu> ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
>In article <6504@bgsuvax.UUCP> jmiller@bgsuvax.UUCP (Jim Miller) writes:
>> I am looking for a package to convert nroff documents to postscript for
>>printing on a LaserWriter IINTX.
>Get the groff package from the Free Software Foundation. It is a freely
>redistributable version of the DWB. It can be retirved via anonymous ftp
>from prep.ai.mit.edu and is found in the /u/emacs directory in the file
>groff.0.6-tar.Z.
I made this mistake once before by responding with psroff/troff....
Just in case it matters:
You have three choices:
1) Use nroff and a filter that converts from ASCII to postscript,
but in addition converts backspace/overstrike stuff into bold
or italics. The output is in courier only. I have one. Send
me mail.
2) If you have "CAT" troff on your system (if you get "Typesetter
busy" from invoking troff you have CAT Troff), use psroff. This
gives high quality output, but may be overkill.
3) If you want high quality output (rather than "just" courier),
but you don't have CAT troff, get groff. May be overkill too.
4) (so I lied) buy DWB (Softquad/Elan/AT&T etc.).
5) (I lied again) If you have troff, but it ain't "CAT", get tpscript
(comp.sources.unix vol 15)...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!telly!eci386!ecicrl!clewis From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: nroff to postscript? Message-ID: <923@ecicrl.UUCP> Date: 6 Nov 90 18:54:26 GMT References: <6504@bgsuvax.UUCP> <Fe_qf+$2@cs.psu.edu> Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 31