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Article #4301Re: RS/6000 DItroff to PostScript
From: Chris Lewis
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 15:19
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 15:19
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In article <4466@awdprime.UUCP> woan@peyote.cactus.org writes:
|In article <13966@june.cs.washington.edu>, slh@wolf.cs.washington.edu
|(Scott Heyano) writes:
|Scott> I think psroff requires a true troff with true troff output,
|Scott> and I think the AIX troff is ditroff.
|Absolutely right, so scratch my psroff idea. Here is exactly what AIX
|3.1 troff supports, according to info:
| IBM 3812 Pageprinter II
| IBM 3816 Pageprinter
| Hewlett Packard LaserJet II with K cartridge
|I couldn't find any mention of the PostScript requested in the
|original post and have no idea of what the "K cartridge" is (special
|fonts?).
If I recall correctly, the K cartridge contains a bold and italic plus
some line printer fonts. That's what psroff's predecessor "lcat" needed.
To generate Postscript from ditroff, you want either tpscript (c.s.u
a few years back) or Transcript from Adobe. (Though, I might just
have psroff working with ditroff input too in the not-to-distant future.
Perhaps I should change the name then to "troffs-R-us" ;-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ecicrl!clewis From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: RS/6000 DItroff to PostScript Keywords: try psroff doesn't work so try groff? Message-ID: <1022@ecicrl.UUCP> Date: 20 Dec 90 15:19:30 GMT References: <1990Nov29.152058.4343@ibmpcug.co.uk> <4421@awdprime.UUCP> <13966@june.cs.washington.edu> <4466@awdprime.UUCP> Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 30