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In article <khaw.678131541@parcplace.com> khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) writes:
>Adobe's current prices for the Transcript package for printing to PS
>printers from Unix are too high for our budget.

>Are there approximately equivalent packages from other sources?
>We're interested primarily in:
>	- printing ordinary Unix text files to PS printers,
>	  with about the same bells and whistles as you would
>	  get with vanilla pr and lpr
>	- spooling PS files to PS printers (i.e., files whose
>	  first bytes are: %!

Almost everything you've described is shipped with the basic UNIX System V
Release 4. Using the 'filter' mechanism of the lp subsystem, you can
print ASCII files, troff and PostScript with a minimum of fuss.
PostScript support is explicitly built in and documented in the generic
Release 4 System Administrator's Guide.

>	- printing Unix man pages (we don't have ditroff, just
>	  plain [nt]roff)

The Release 4 included filters work with ditroff. You might want to
consider something like freely-available psroff, which converts old-troff
output either to ditroff or PS output.

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