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                             Jonathan Monsarrat 

                      postscript-request@cs.brown.edu 






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    5 PostScript Interpreters and Utilities 

    This section lists all the large PostScript programs that I know 
    of, both commercial and for free. These programs have largely not 
    been posted to comp.sources.postscript, but there are references 
    about where to get all programs. 

    I would like very much to be able to recommend some of these 
    programs over others. Unfortunately, I have very little information 
    about most of them. Please send information or additions! Programs 
    without significant information will be dropped shortly. 

    Included in this index are a number of ASCII to PostScript 
    conversion programs. These are quick and dirty programs, and it is 
    unclear why having so many of them is interesting, so many will 
    probably be deleted (send mail about the ones you like most). If 
    you really want to convert ASCII to PostScript in a high quality 
    way, what you want is a real text formatter. (See the FAQ for 
    comp.text and comp.text.tex) 

    If you have a program, please let me know. Section 10, ``About the 
    FAQ'' has some hints on what I'm hoping to get when I get a program 
    description. 

    I am grateful to Howard Gayle (howard@hal.com) for a large portion 
    of the below information. 

    Now that there is Linux, IBM PC (and clone) users can run any of 
    the X-windows and UNIX programs in the utilities section. 


    5.1 How can I find a program? 

    To find a program, try using an ``archie'' server. Archie will 
    figure out which FTP sites have the program that you are looking 
    for. Please try archie before asking people for the program. 

    I would be happy to answer questions about where to get programs. 
    Just send me email. If you find a good ftp site for these programs, 
    please let me know. 

    To use archie, just type ``archie'' or ``xarchie''. If you don't 
    have that program, then you can telnet to one of the following 
    addresses and type ``archie'' as the username. To get help type 
    ``help''. 

  
      archie.rutgers.edu   128.6.18.15     (Rutgers University)
      archie.unl.edu       129.93.1.14     (University of Nebraska in Lincoln)
      archie.sura.net      128.167.254.179 (SURAnet archie server)
      archie.ans.net       147.225.1.2     (ANS archie server)
      archie.au            139.130.4.6     (Australian server)
      archie.funet.fi      128.214.6.100   (European server in Finland)
      archie.doc.ic.ac.uk  146.169.11.3    (UK/England server)
      archie.cs.huji.ac.il 132.65.6.15     (Israel server)
      archie.wide.ad.jp    133.4.3.6       (Japanese server)
  
    If you don't have telnet, send email to archie at any of the above 
    sites with the subject ``help''. 


    5.2 How can I browse through PostScript programs? 

    To find ftp sites that carry PostScript programs, try ``archie 
    postscript''. Then use ftp to look through them. 


    5.3 Keywords 



    What: 



      Bounding-Box 
         Determines the bounding box of a PostScript program (so it can 
         be converted to EPSF for example). 


      Converts 
         The program converts back and forth between formats such as: 
         ASCII, PostScript, TeX, Images, PCL 


      Converts-Images 
         A program that converts to too many image formats to name! 


      Device-Utility 
         A utility for a PostScript device. 


      Document-Previewer 
         The previewer has options for viewing text documents. NOTE: 
         most previewers make passable document previewer even without 
         these extra options. 


      Example 
         The source code for this program is a programming example for 
         programmers. 


      Font-Utility 
         The program does something useful with font descriptions. 


      Interpreter 
         The program can understand the PostScript language. 


      Level-2 
         The program can interpret a reasonable amount of PostScript 
         level 2. 


      Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver 
         The program allows PostScript drawings to be printed on at 
         least one non-PostScript printer. 


      Page-Reordering 
         The program allows you to either choose a page or a few pages 
         to print from a big document, or lets you print in reverse 
         order, or lets you ``N-Up'', which means to put more than one 
         page on a physical page. These programs work only if the 
         PostScript input follows the Adobe Document Structuring 
         Conventions. (See Section 9, ``Encapsulated PostScript''). 


      Previewer 
         The interpreter displays PostScript on the screen. 


      Programmer-Utility 
         The program helps write PostScript programs. 


      Text-Formatter 
         The program formats text in some interesting way, or lets you 
         include PostScript in a text formatter. 


      Written-in-PostScript 
         The program is written entirely in PostScript and thus can run 
         on any computer with an interpreter, or on any PostScript 
         printer. 


    Status 



      Shareware 
         means that the program is free but the author would like 
         money. 


      Free 
         means that the program is freely available. This usually means 
         that source code is included and that it is freely 
         distributable. 


      Commercial 
         means that some company sells the program. 


      Platforms: 
         What computers does it run on? For the IBM PC, look for 
         ``MS-DOS''. For most workstations, look for ``UNIX''. 


      Get-From 
         tells where to get the program, through ftp or some other 
         source. 


    5.4 Interpreters 

    The following are all programs that understand the PostScript 
    graphics programming language. PostScript is an interpreted 
    language, which means that there is no compiler for it. An 
    interpreter is like a compiler that, instead of producing a 
    sequence of actions in machine language for the computer to handle 
    at some future time, performs the actions itself immediately. 

    Most interpreters are also previewers, which allow you to view the 
    PostScript drawing as it is created by the PostScript program. 
    Unfortunately, viewing the document on-line is not guaranteed to be 
    a perfect simulation of printing the document. Complex programs 
    that use random numbers or check the device type will almost 
    certainly run differently. 

    Some interpreters are meant for looking at text documents without 
    printing them. They usually have a number of functions for flipping 
    back and forth between pages. These interpreters are called 
    document previewers. 



    Canvas 3.0 
      is an integrated program for any graphic work. It handles bitmap 
      and vector oriented artwork and has many powerful tools. It may 
      not be good enough for true professional art. Professionals might 
      prefer Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Quark XPress. 
      PostScript level 1 only. 

              What: Previewer. Status: commercial. Cost: $ 259. 
              Platforms: Macintosh with System 6.0.5 or higher with at 
              least 4MB RAM. Get-From: Deneba Systems, Inc. Miami. Any 
              Macintosh mail-order house should know about it. 


    dxpsview 
      from DEC provides user selectable options to control its 
      execution. It will accept DSC comments and honor them, but it 
      allows the user to turn them off if that's the best thing to do. 

      It images valid PostScript, it honors color (if the DEC 
      workstation is a color workstation), it images one page and stops 
      with the showpage so the user can see the image. It allows you to 
      page back and forth in the document EVEN IF IT'S NOT DSC! (Sure, 
      slow at times if it's not DSC, but it still does the job!) It 
      provides scaling and rotation under user control. 


              What: Previewer. Status: commercial. Platforms: DEC 
              workstation. Get-From: Digital Equipment Corporation. 


    Freedom of Press 
      ??? 

      For most users who only want to print to common printers like 
      DeskWriters, StyleWriters, or Personal LaserWriter LS's, the 
      light version of Freedom of the Press will suffice. ( $ 55). 


              What: Interpreter, Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver. Status: 
              commercial ( $ 55). Platforms: ???. Get-From: ???. 


    Gammascript 
      ??? 


              What: Interpreter. Status: ???. Platforms: MS-DOS. 
              Get-From: ???. 


    Ghostscript 
      is perhaps the most popular previewer. It is a PostScript 
      interpreter written by L. Peter Deutsch, and is distributed under 
      the terms of the GNU Library General Public License. Unlike 
      commercial interpreters, ghostscript isn't tied to a particular 
      piece of hardware. Ghostscript will compile on most common 
      platforms, and has drivers for many common peripherals, including 
      X11R [ 345 ] , MS-DOS-VGA, Deskjet 500, Epson dot matrix 
      printers, and HP laserjets. 

      Ghostscript deals well with ``normal'' documents, such as output 
      from Tomas Rokicki's dvips. If you're into testing the outer 
      limits of PostScript, however, your mileage with Ghostscript may 
      vary. The output character quality is (obviously) dependent upon 
      the fonts which ghostscript uses. Most of ghostscript's fonts are 
      outlines generated from the bitmap fonts that were donated by 
      Adobe to the X consortium. These are certainly good enough for 
      screen previewing, and rough drafts, but show their limitations 
      when used on laser printers. Fortunately, Ghostscript can use 
      type 1 fonts, so if you happen to have some around, you'll find 
      that the output quality is very close to that of a PostScript 
      interpreter. Ghostscript comes with a few type 1 fonts that were 
      donated to the X consortium from Adobe, IBM, and Bitstream. Note 
      that if you're using TeX or LaTeX with the cmr fonts, this last 
      statement implies that ghostscript will probably suit your needs, 
      since your dvi-to-ps converter will include the cmr fonts in its 
      output PostScript file. 

      If you're using IBM OS/2 2.0, you can make a Ghostscript icon and 
      drag PostScript files onto it and they'll be printed 
      automatically. 

      Ghostscript 2.2 has been ported to the Atari ST platform by 
      Timothy Gallivan. It's available by ftp to 
      atari.archive.umich.edu. 

      For more information about Ghostscript, read the 
      gnu.ghostscript.bug newsgroup, or contact the author, Peter 
      Deutsch, at ghost@aladdin.com. 


              What: Interpreter, Previewer, Programmer-Utility, 
              User-Utility, Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver, Level-2, 
              Converts-PostScript-to-GIF, Converts-PostScript-to-PBM. 
              Status: free. Platforms: MS-DOS, UNIX, VMS, Xwindows, 
              Macintosh, Acorn Archimedes, Atari-ST. Get-From: Japan: 
              ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:ftpsync/prep 
              Australia: archie.oz.au:gnu Europe: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:gnu, 
              ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de, 
              ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:pub/gnu, 
              nic.funet.fi:pub/gnu, ugle.unit.no, isy.liu.se, 
              ftp.stacken.kth.se, sunic.sunet.se, ftp.win.tue.nl, 
              ftp.diku.dk, ftp.eunet.ch, archive.eu.net United States: 
              ftp.cs.wisc.edu:pub/X, prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu, 
              wuarchive.wustl.edu, ftp.cs.widener.edu, 
              uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, col.hp.com, gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/GNU, 
              ftp.uu.net:systems/gnu. Macintosh: 
              sumex-aim.stanford.edu:info-mac/util/ghostscript-252b2-runtime-*.hqx 
              Archimedes: contact David Elworthy 
              (David.Elworthy@cl.cam.ac.uk). 

      See Ghostview and GSPreview. 


    Ghostview 
      is an X11 user interface for ghostscript. It was written by Tim 
      Theisen, and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General 
      Public License. Ghostview runs on UNIX and VMS platforms. To 
      compile ghostview, you should have the X11R5 distribution from 
      MIT. Many vendors do not provide the Athena widgets. 

      Ghostview provides a menu driven interface with ample keyboard 
      accelerators. It also provides popup zoom windows and the ability 
      to save or print selected pages. 

      For more information about ghostview, contact the author, Tim 
      Theisen, at ghostview@cs.wisc.edu. 


              What: Bounding-Box, Document-Previewer, Level-2, 
              Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: X11 on Unix or 
              VMS systems. Get-From: Source: 
              ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-1.4.1.tar.Z or 
              prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ghostview-1.4.1.tar.Z or other 
              GNU distribution points (see ghostscript's listing) 
              Binaries: ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-exe directory. 


    GoScript 3.0 
      ??? 


              What: Interpreter. Status: ???. Platforms: MS-DOS. 
              Get-From: ???. 


    GSPreview 
      A document previewer based on GhostScript, by Richard Hesketh. 


              What: Document-Previewer, Level-2. Status: free. 
              Platforms: X Windows. Get-From: prep.ai.mit.edu. 


    Hijack-PS 
      is part of the Hijaak packge for DOS, or for Windows. 


              What: Interpreter, Converts-???. Status: commercial. 
              Platforms: IBM PC. Get-From: MicroWarehouse sells it for 
              $ 129. 


    Island Draw 
      is a picture editor that can save in and read in PostScript. It 
      contains a full PostScript interpreter. 


              What: Interpreter. Status: ???. Platforms: ???. Get-From: 
              ???. 


    JAWS 
      ??? 


              What: Interpreter. Status: Commercial. Platforms: Sun. 
              Get-From: ???. 

      Where to get it: uad1077@dircon.co.uk 


    NeXTStep, 
      release 3.0 supports full level 2 PostScript. 


              What: Interpreter. Status: commercial. Platforms: NeXT. 
              Get-From: NeXT. 


    Opium 
      converts PostScript to several raster image formats. It has 
      several language extensions relating to image processing (alpha 
      channel, ``forall'' for images etc.) and usability of PostScript 
      as a general purpose script language (``system'', secure and 
      non-secure modes, etc.) Converts to TIFF 5.0 (including RLE, LZW, 
      fax3, fax4, and JPEG compressions), PBM, PGM, PPM, Sixel (VT240, 
      LN03), Group 3 fax, ASCII, and HPGL (experimental). 


              What: Interpreter, Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII, Converts 
              PostScript-to-TIFF, Converts-Images, Level-2, 
              Converts-PostScript-to-HPGL. Status: commercial. 
              Platforms: UNIX, Sun, DECstation, AIX, NeXT, Alpha and 
              VMS. Get-From: Stream Technologies Inc., Valkjarventie 2, 
              SF-02130 Espoo, FINLAND, Tel: +358 0 43577340, Fax: +358 
              0 43577348, Email: info@sti.fi. 


    pageview 
      can preview PostScript on the Sun screen. The document must 
      follow the DSC conventions described in section 9 (EPSF). 


              What: Previewer. Status: commercial. Platforms: 
              OpenWindows. Get-From: Sun. 


    PixelScript 
      ??? 


              What: Interpreter, Previewer. Status: commercial. 
              Platforms: Amiga. Get-From: ???. 


    PowerPage 
      from Pipeline Associates handles the special hints in Adobe Type 
      1 fonts (see Section 4, ``Fonts''). 


              What: Interpreter. Status: commercial. Platforms: ???. 
              Get-From: Pipeline Associates. 


    Post 
      turns PostScript files into screen images, image files, and 
      prints on non-PostScript printers. Scaling & pixel density are 
      adjustable by the user. It is excellent, works in color, supports 
      types 1 and 3 fonts. By Adrian Aylward, 20 Maidstone Rd Swindon, 
      WILTS. UK. 

      This is not the same as Post for MS-DOS. 


              What: Interpreter, Previewer, Converts-Images. Status: 
              free. Platforms: Amiga. Get-From: Compuserve, or from any 
              Amiga PD source, in the well-known Fred Fish collection. 
              Current version is 1.7, on Fish Disk 669. Or 
              grind.isca.uiowa.edu, gatekeeper.dec.com [ 
              /pub/micro/amiga/fish ] , monu6.cc.monash.edu.au, 
              ux1.cso.uiuc.edu [ amiga/fish/f6/ff669 ] . 


    PS-Magic 
      ??? 

      Registration is $ 40 and includes the usual 40 font family. 
      Otherwise it only includes the Times font family. 


              What: Interpreter. Status: shareware ( $ 40). Platforms: 
              ???. Get-From: Advantage Computer, Box 524, Fremont CA 
              94537, U.S.A. Or, in Toronto, it can be downloaded from 
              CRS: Canada Remote Systems (Mississauga). 


    PSView 
      ??? 


              What: Interpreter. Status: ???. Platforms: Macintosh. 
              Get-From: ???. 


    TScript 
      ??? 

      For most users who only want to print to common printers like 
      DeskWriters, StyleWriters, or Personal LaserWriter LS's, the 
      Basic version of TScript will suffice ( $ 55). 

      A more complex version is available that works with more esoteric 
      printers, particularly color printers and very-high-end 
      imagesetters. 


              What: Interpreter. Status: commercial ( $ 55). Platforms: 
              Macintosh. Get-From: ???. 


    UltraScript PC 
      is a PostScript previewer for level 1 PostScript only. 

      UltraScript PC can print from within an application. This feature 
      requires about 1 Mbyte of memory above the minimum requirement. 
      It can process hinted type-1 (Adobe) fonts. The products include 
      QMS fonts with metrics that match those of Adobe's fonts. 

      The main PostScript interpreter in UltraScript PC runs as a TSR, 
      mostly living in extended memory (occupies about 24K below the 
      640K line). There is a different TSR called PCAPTURE that 
      intercepts LPTn output and routes it to UltraScript, which 
      interprets it and prints to the real printer. There's also a 
      front-end program which selects printing from an already-existing 
      file or lets you run in interactive mode (similar to 
      ``executive'' on a PostScript printer). 

      UltraScript PC is $ 195. It runs in PC/AT compatibles and needs 
      about 1M of extended memory. The basic version includes 25 fonts. 
      UltraScript PC Plus is $ 445 includes 47 fonts. The previewer 
      requires Microsoft Windows 3. 

      UltraScript for the Macintosh requires at least a 2 Mbyte system 
      to run. The basic version is $ 195 and includes 15 fonts. 
      UltraScript Plus is $ 495, includes 43 fonts, and has an 
      AppleTalk print spooler. It appears on the Chooser as a printer. 


              What: Previewer, Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver, 
              Converts-PostScript-to-PCL, Converts-PostScript-to-PCX, 
              Converts-PostScript-to-TIFF. Status: commercial. 
              Platforms: MS-DOS, Macintosh. Get-From: PM Ware in 
              Escondido, California, 1-800-845-4843 or 1-619-738-6633. 
              CompuClassics, phone 1-800-733-3888. 


    5.5 Utilities 

    The following are utilities intended to make using PostScript or 
    programming in PostScript easier. Many interpreters are also very 
    useful utilities. A program that makes something nice-looking but 
    does not help you use or program in PostScript would be in one of 
    the next section, PostScript Programs. This section has not yet 
    been created, but I am accepting information for it! 



    a2ps 
      v4.2 places two pages on each physical page, borders surrounding 
      pages, headers, line numbering, multiple copies, landscape and 
      portrait mode, wide format, lines numbering, fold/cut long lines, 
      control font size. It can handle 8 bit characters, twin pages in 
      portrait mode, and two-side printing. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX, MS-DOS. Get-From: ftp from imag.fr 
              (129.88.32.1), in archive/postscript. 


    asc2ps 
      is part of Psroff3.0, and is integrated with psxlate. It is of 
      particular interest because it understands nroff's backspace bold 
      and italic conventions and doesn't introduce lots of extra bells 
      and whistles. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: ???. Get-From: See Psroff3.0. 


    asciiprint.ps 
      ??? 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript, Example. Status: 
              free. Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: zben@umd5.umd.edu 
              (Ben Cranston). 


    ato2pps 
      prints ASCII printable text boxed, 2-up, in landscape mode. 
      Prints boxed header with date & time, file name, and page number. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX, possibly available on Macintosh (C 
              program). Get-From: Mark Edwards 
              (edwards@vms.macc.wisc.edu). 


    Bar-a-Coda 
      is an application for creating PostScript (EPS and EPSI) and TIFF 
      bar codes. Bar-a-Coda allows you to easily create an individual 
      bar code, a sheet, or many sheets. 


    BarCodeKit 
      is an object library (in Objective-C) for creating PostScript 
      (EPS and EPSI) and TIFF bar codes. 

      The two products offer every major bar code symbology. They can 
      also create two-dimensional/multiple row bar codes. 

      Bar codes can be scaled and rotated, colorized, dragged and 
      dropped into documents and accessed from any application via the 
      NeXTSTEP Services menu. 


              What: User-Utility. Status: Commercial. Platforms: 
              NeXTSTEP. Get-From: Hot Technologies, email to 
              info@hot.com or phone 617-252-0088. 


    bbfig 
      will let you calculate the bounding box of a PostScript picture. 
      It prints the figure and then calculates the bounding box around 
      the figure and print the box and its coordinates. This usually 
      works. However, for the times that it fails you have to measure 
      it by hand. 


              What: Bounding-Box. Status: free. Platforms: ???. 
              Get-From: world.std.com:/src/text/tex/dvips/contrib, 
              emx.cc.utexas.edu:/pub/mnt/source/tex/dvi3ps, 
              isfs.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp:/TeX/styles/kth.se. 


    behandler.ps 
      is a PostScript error handler. If you prepend it to a broken 
      PostScript file it will give a lot of information when the 
      program crashes. 


              What: Programmer-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: 
              PostScript. Get-From: 
              wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/behandler.ps and 
              behandler.doc. 


    cz 
      is table-driven, handles almost any character set, uses any font 
      on printer, control font sizes, paper size, page layout, number 
      of columns, line numbers, portrait or landscape mode, page 
      reversal, leading (line spacing), tab expansion. Emacs interface. 
      By Howard Gayle. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: comp.sources.misc volume 8 
              issues 65-75, 77-78 ( 1 Oct 1989) issue 97 (28 Oct 1989) 
              (Other prerequisites: see README file at beginning of 
              issue 65.). 


    crossword.ps 
      converts a specially formatted ASCII file to a crossword puzzle. 
      By Carl Lydick. Just prepend to an ASCII file and send it to the 
      printer. 


              What: Written-in-PostScript, 
              Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms: 
              PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose body 
              consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to 
              FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on 
              ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV). 


    double.ps 
      prints two pages of ASCII side by side in landscape mode. By Carl 
      Lydick. 


              What: Written-in-PostScript, 
              Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms: 
              PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose body 
              consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to 
              FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on 
              ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV). 


    dvips 
      , by Tomas Rokicki of Radical Eye Software, is the most popular 
      DVI to PostScript conversion program. It converts TeX and LaTeX 
      DVI files into PostScript. It also allow you to use PostScript 
      fonts and PostScript graphics inside TeX and LaTeX documents. The 
      distribution includes the epsffile and psfig macro packages for 
      including PostScript graphics. 


              What: Converts-DVI-to-PostScript, 
              Converts-PostScript-to-TeX, Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX. 
              Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: 
              labrea.stanford.edu:/pub/dvips*.tar.Z. 


    DWB 3 
      ??? 


              What: ???. Status: ???. Platforms: ???. Get-From: ???. 


    enscript 
      formats text in 1 or 2 columns, portrait or landscape, manual 
      paper feed, headers, line printer simulation, line wrap or 
      truncation, control lines on page, fonts. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: commercial -- 
              a part of Transcript. Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: Adobe 
              Systems. 


    epsffile 
      TeX macros to include PostScript figures in TeX or LaTeX 
      documents. 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-TeX, 
              Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX. Status: free. Platforms: 
              UNIX. Get-From: See the dvips entry. 


    epsffit 
      fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box. 


              What: Bounding-Box. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. 
              Get-From: See the psutils entry. 


    epsfinfo.ps 
      converts PostScript output to encapsulated PostScript. 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-EPS. Status: free. 
              Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: The Adobe fileserver: 
              ftp.adobe.com. 


    epsonps 
      Epson LX-800 to PostScript translator, supports international 
      character sets, IBM graphics characters, different width fonts, 
      bit-mapped graphics. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: comp.sources.misc. 


    eps2epsi 
      does a conversion if you have GhostScript and Perl. 


              What: Converts-EPS-to-EPSI. Status: free. Platforms: 
              Perl. Get-From: 
              wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/eps2epsi.shar. 


    ETSR 
      in an Epson MX-80 to PostScript translator, includes Epson Mx-80 
      graphics modes, supports virtual printers, PrintScreen key 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: commercial. 
              Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: $ 75 from Niche Marketing, 
              7198 Camino Colegio, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA. Phone 
              +1 707-795-7306. Overseas shipping is $ 5 extra. CA 
              residents please include 6.25 % sales tax. 


    fixbb 
      Gets the bounding box of a PostScript file made with Framemaker, 
      because Frame gets it wrong sometimes. Uses an idea of Doug 
      Crabhill's. 


              What: Bounding-Box. Status: free. Platforms: You need 
              Poskanzer's pbm toolkit, Ghostscript, and GNU awk (or awk 
              and sed). Get-From: email to jgm@cs.brown.edu. 


    fontutils 
      ??? 

      The GNU font-making utilities. They can convert a PostScript font 
      to TeX's TK format. 


              What: Convert-PostScript-to-TK. Status: free. Platforms: 
              UNIX. Get-From: prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu. 


    getafm 
      outputs PostScript to retrieve an AFM file from printer. 


              What: Device-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. 
              Get-From: See the psutils entry. 


    Groff 
      is a Free Software Foundation package that can convert troff to 
      PostScript. 


              What: Converts-Troff-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX, C++. Get-From: prep.ai.mit.edu. 


    gs_2asc.ps 
      prints all the characters of a PostScript program as well as the 
      (X,Y) positions. You can use the (X,Y) positions to retain the 
      format of your document, as well as just the strings. 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free. 
              Platforms: GhostScript. Get-From: included in 
              GhostScript. 


    hp2pbm 
      can convert all of PCL4 (up to and including rasters, downloaded 
      fonts and macros). It's somewhat slow because it converts PCL 
      into Poskanzer's Portable Bitmap format rasters (PBM) before 
      generating PostScript, but it's theoretically pixel-for-pixel 
      identical with the original PCL. Plus it's capable of driving 
      many other types of graphics devices or printers. 


              What: Converts-PCL-to-PBM, Converts-PCL-to-PostScript, 
              Interpreter, Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: comp.sources.misc, soon to be 
              a part of Psroff3.0. 


    hp2ps 
      V 18b. converts HPGL to PostScript. The bulk of the program is in 
      Postscript (it was designed to be an HPGL interpreter written in 
      Postscript), and there is a small C pre-processor which is 
      necessary if you output text using the plotter font. 


              What: Converts-HPGL-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: PostScript, C. Get-From: 
              huey.wst.com:/pub/hp2ps. 


    hp2xx 
      can convert HPGL into encapsulated PostScript. 


              What: Converts-HPGL-to-PostScript, Converts-HPGL-to-EPS 
              Status: free. Platforms: ??? Get-From: 
              aeneas.mit.edu:pub/gnu/hp2xx-3.1.0.tar.z 


    hpscat 
      features Hangul (Korean). 

      Unfortunately, font is not a part of 'hpscat'. It's a property of 
      ELEX Inc., a Korean Mac dealer. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: ???. 
              Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: kum.kaist.ac.kr or 
              cair.kaist.ac.kr. 


    i2ps 
      handles ISO 8859/1 and Norwegian ISO 646. Written in Perl. Line 
      numbers, wrap or truncate long lines, landscape, 2 or 3 column, 
      control body font size. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX (any Perl platform). Get-From: Get-from 
              alt.sources article (AAS.90Oct30172546@boeygen.nr.no) 
              posted 30 October 1990. 


    ImageMagick 
      is an X11 package for display and interactive manipulation of 
      images. Includes tools for image conversion, annotation, 
      compositing, animation, and creating montages. ImageMagick can 
      read and write many of the more popular image formats including 
      Postscript. By John Cristy (cristy@dupont.com), E. I. du Pont de 
      Nemours & Co. 

      ImageMagick uses GhostScript. 


              What: Converts-Images, Converts-PostScript-to-TIFF, 
              Document-Previewer, Converts-TIFF-to-PostScript. Status: 
              free. Platforms: X11. Get-From: 
              export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z. 


    imtools 
      Converts just about everything in the image bitmap universe. 


              What: Converts-Images. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. 
              Get-From: San Diego Supercomputer Center distributes 
              binaries only. 


    Impressario 
      Converts text, SGI image, and PostScript (and a number of other 
      formats) to print on HP Series II and III (PCL4 and above) 
      printers. It includes format conversions, and even does 
      line-by-line adaptive compression to ensure the fastest 
      transmission times. 

      It's for use on any SGI box running IRIX 4.0.1 or later. 

      What: Converts-PostScript-to-PCL. Status: Commercial, $ 800. 
      Platforms: SGI's IRIX. Get-From: Silicon Graphics. 


    LameTeX 
      can convert simple LaTeX to PostScript or to ASCII. 

      It specializes in complete versatility of the printed page. The 
      standard model for text formatters is that every page is 
      necessarily rectangular. LameTeX will let you format text inside 
      a triangular page, or a circle page. Just like professional 
      magazine editors, you can include pictures of any shape and ask 
      the text to flow around them or inside them. 

      These flexible arbitrarily-shaped margins are PostScript paths. 
      If you don't know PostScript, it contains a big library of 
      interesting LameTeX page margins. With LameTeX you can fit 
      several ``pages'' onto one 8.5x11 inch piece of paper, so you can 
      easily make index cards, labels, and half-pages of text. 

      Also, if you know how to write programs in PostScript, LameTeX 
      allows you to very tightly integrate your LameTeX commands with 
      your PostScript code. In fact, the PostScript that LameTeX 
      outputs is nicely formatted and commented so that you can modify 
      it yourself and see how it's done. LameTeX is written with 
      PostScript version 1, so it should run on all PostScript 
      printers. 

      LameTeX is in use for Usenet FAQs for comp.lang.postscript, 
      comp.sources.postscript, comp.text.tex, rec.boats, comp.fonts, 
      alt.quotations, and comp.os.linux. 

      Finally, everything about LameTeX is set up to be compatible with 
      LaTeX. LameTeX can't do everything that LaTeX can, but the 
      special stealth commands guarantee that your fancy LameTeX 
      document can be processed by normal LaTeX. This allows you to 
      share it with anyone who doesn't happen to have LameTeX. 

      By Jon Monsarrat, jgm@cs.brown.edu. 


              What: Converts-LaTeX-to-PostScript, Text-Formatter, 
              Converts-LaTeX-to-ASCII. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX, 
              any C++ platform. Get-From: 
              wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/lametex.tar.Z. 


    landscape.ps 
      prints pages of 132 characters by 60 lines in landscape mode in 9 
      point Courier. By Carl Lydick. Just prepend to an ASCII file and 
      send it to the printer. 


              What: Written-in-PostScript, 
              Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms: 
              PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose body 
              consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to 
              FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on 
              ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV). 


    lineprinter.ps 
      is a simple text to PostScript translator. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: ???. 
              Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: from the Adobe file 
              server (see Section 6, ``About Adobe''). 


    lj2ps 
      does a conversion of a (small) subset of PCL into PostScript. By 
      Chris Lewis. 

      There is a different lj2ps in psroff3.0 which does a somewhat 
      more complete job (handles downloaded LJ fonts) and should work 
      well with most ``WP'' or text processing applications. 


              What: Converts-PCL-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: comp.sources.misc. 


    lpp 
      features headers, different paper sizes, borders, font, font 
      size, banner page, truncate or fold long lines, adjust margins, 
      Swedish ISO 646, ISO 8859/1, multiple copies, landscape or 
      portrait, multiple columns, localized date, double-sided 
      printing, nroff font selection, and more. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX, VMS, TOPS-20. Get-From: send request to 
              fred@nada.kth.se (Fredric Ihren). UNIX-version is 
              shareware ( 8 single-user, 12 multi-user). TOPS-20 and 
              VMS versions free. 
      . 


    lprps 
      is a collection of programs for interfacing the BSD lpr spooler 
      to a PostScript printer over a bidirectional serial link. 



            What: 
              Device-Utility 

            Status: 
              free 

            Platforms: 
              UNIX (SunOS, Ultrix, and other BSD-based versions) 

            Get-From: 
              comp.sources.misc volumes 31 and 32, or 
              ftp.jclark.com:/pub/lprps/lprps-2.4.tar.Z 

      lwf features indent, portrait/landscape, margin adjust, page 
      range, point size, tab stops, headers, page reversal, multicolumn 
      printing (via pr). 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX. 

            Get-From: 
              comp.sources.unix volume 15 issue 8, 25 May 1988, archive 
              name lwf (obsolete version with minor bugs). An updated 
              version can be ftp'ed from cs.ubc.ca (137.82.8.5) as 
              pub/lwf-2.2.shar.Z. 


    macps 
      is a Unix program that takes an uploaded PostScript file created 
      on a Macintosh (by typing Command-F at the LaserWriter dialog 
      box; see macps.1 for more details) and includes an appropriately 
      modified LaserPrep file so that the result can be sent to a 
      PostScript printer from Unix. The LaserPrep file contains macros 
      used by the PostScript generator on the Macintosh. 

      Macps is difficult to install, and may not really be necessary. 


              What: Device-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. 
              Get-From: 
              src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/computing/systems/mac/macps/macps-23.shar 
              and sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/unix/macps-23.shar. 


    mutips 
      is a package that can print four pages to a sheet, etc. 


              What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: ???. 
              Get-From: ftp.su.oz.au: pub/ps_printing/multi/* 


    mp 
      lets you print mail messages and news articles, including 
      digests, as well as ASCII text files. 2-up landscape mode. Prints 
      Filofax, Franklin Planner, Time Manager, and Time/System 
      International formats. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: iesd.auc.dk (130.225.48.4) in 
              the PostScript directory, or ftp.adelaide.edu.au 
              (129.127.40.3) in the pub/sun/richb directory. 


    mpage 
      prints ASCII or PostScript 1-, 2-, 4-, or 8-up, optionally boxed 
      or landscape. Automatically figures out whether input is ASCII 
      text or PostScript. Can arrange pages down or across and print a 
      count of pages printed. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: 
              ftp.eng.umd.edu:pub/misc/mpage-2.tar.Z. 


    nenscript 
      is an enscript clone. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: MS-DOS, UNIX, OS/2. Get-From: 
              comp.lang.postscript article 
              (geoffw.718500346@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU), posted 7 October 
              1992. You can find nenscript for OS/2 1.x--2.0 and MSDOS 
              on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/all/nensc113.zip. A 
              portable unzip program is available in comp.sources.misc. 


    numbered.ps 
      prints pages of 80 characters by 58 lines in portrait mode, with 
      pages numbered in the lower-right corner in 11 point Courier. By 
      Carl Lydick. Just prepend to an ASCII file and send it to the 
      printer. 


              What: Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms: 
              PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose body 
              consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to 
              FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on 
              ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV). 


    quarto.c 
      shuffles and scales PostScript pages. It does signature printing, 
      reversal, page selection, page listing, etc. By Michael Hawley. 


              What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: C. 
              Get-From: wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/quarto.c. 


    PBM utilities 
      in the X11R4 and X11R5 distributions can convert between many 
      image formats. They handle: 

    
        Sun icon file                               reading writing
        Sun raster file                             reading writing
        X10 and X11 bitmap file                     reading writing
        MacPaint                                    reading writing
        CMU window manager format                   reading writing
        MGR format                                  reading writing
        Group 3 FAX                                 reading writing
        X11 window dump file                        reading writing
        X10 window dump file                        reading
        Xerox doodle brushes                        reading
        GEM .img format                             reading
        PC paintbrush (.pcx) format                 reading
        PICT                                        reading
        ASCII graphics                                      writing
        HP LaserJet format                                  writing
        GraphOn graphics                                    writing
        BBN BitGraph graphics                               writing
        Printronix format                                   writing
    
      See PPM and PGM for more X Windows conversion help. 


              What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms: X11. 
              Get-From: ???. 


    PBMPLUS 
      can convert between a lot of image formats. By Jef Poskanzer. 


              What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms: ???. 
              Get-From: export.lcs.mit.edu as /contrib/pbmplus*.tar.Z. 


    pc2ps 
      handles IBM code page 437 line graphic symbols. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: ???. 
              Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: GIERSIG@EDVZ.ATI.ADA.AT 
              (Roland Giersig). 


    PdB 
      version 2.1 is an ANSI-C to PostScript optimizing compiler that 
      allows you to write PostScript programs in C. 

      There is no more need to write PostScript! Start using PdB right 
      now! PdB is an optimizing compiler to compile ANSI-C (like) code 
      into Adobe compatible PostScript. The release of version 2.1 
      includes: 

      Binaries for Sun SPARC station and IBM RS6000; Include files for 
      Abobe PostScript level; Include files for NeWS upto version 3.1.; 
      Include files for TNT upto version 3.1.; Support for CPS 
      OpenWindows upto version 3.1.; Support NeWS classing in a C++ 
      manner; Plenty of examples of all the above functions.; 
      NeWS/OpenWindows test suite.; PostScript reference manual.; UNIX 
      manual pages. 


              What: Converts-C-to-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms: 
              ANSI-C. Get-From: turing.com:pub/pdb2.1-demo.tar.Z. 


    PGM utilities 
      in the X11R4 and X11R5 distributions can convert between many 
      image formats. They handle: 

    
        TIFF                                        reading
        Usenix FaceSaver file                       reading
        HIPS                                        reading
        FITS                                        reading writing
        PostScript ``image'' data                     reading
        raw grayscale bytes                         reading
        Encapsulated PostScript                             writing
    
      See PBM and PPM for more X Windows conversion help. 


              What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms: X11. 
              Get-From: ???. 


    portrait.ps 
      prints pages of 80 characters by 60 lines in portrait mode in 11 
      point Courier. Just prepend to an ASCII file and send it to the 
      printer. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript, 
              Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms: 
              PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose body 
              consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to 
              FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on 
              ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV). 


    Post 
      handles control margins, fonts, orientation, scaling This is not 
      the same as Post for the Amiga. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: shareware ( $ 
              5). Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: F. C. Betts, Veda 
              Incorporated, Suite 200, 5200 Springfield Pike, Dayton, 
              OH 45431, U.S.A. 


    POSTPRN 
      is a device driver that prints portrait and landscape, and 1-up, 
      2-up, and 4-up pages. Automatically converts ASCII to PostScript 
      simply by opening the device and writing to it. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: 
              grape.ecs.clarkson.edu:/d/dosutil/postprn.zip 
              (315)268-6667 (1N8, 12/2400), file area 7, postprn.zip. 


    PostScript Processing Speed Test version 3.1 
      measures the speed of your PostScript device. By Jean-Serge 
      Gagnon. 


              What: Device-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: ???. 
              Get-From: GAAJ.UOTTAWA.CA (132.122.6.203). 


    The PostScript Zone 
      lets you pretend your PostScript programming space is three 
      dimensional. This package is a set of headers that you can add to 
      your files to make them know how to draw in three dimensions. By 
      Jonathan Monsarrat (jgm@cs.brown.edu). 

      The page, of course, is a perspective two-dimensional projection 
      of this three-dimensional drawing space. You can adjust this 
      projection, rotate your three-dimensional coordinate system, 
      translate, and so on. 

      You can convert any 2D PostScript image into 3-space, warping it 
      over any arbitrary transformation or over a surface. 

      The Zone is written entirely in PostScript level 1 and runs on 
      any PostScript device. 

      The Zone comes with a C program that lets you interactively build 
      a 3D image and rotate it with simple keystrokes. 

      The PostScript Zone also has examples of arbitrary non-affine 
      transformations and conformal mapping. 


              What: 3D, Warps, Conformal-Mapping, 
              Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms: 
              PostScript. Get-From: wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/zone.tar.Z. 


    postscript.el 
      is an emacs mode for PostScript programming. There's a much 
      better version of Chris Maio's -- it's definitely worth replacing 
      your September 1988 version with the 11/22/90 patch by John 
      Relph. 


              What: Programmer-Utility, elisp. Status: free. Platforms: 
              Emacs. Get-From: 
              wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/postscript.el. 


    pps 
      is designed to be extended into further tools. It consists of a 
      front-end that converts the file into generic PostScript. You 
      tack a header onto it that defines the behavior of tabs, font 
      changes, newlines, formfeeds, and so on. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: alt.sources and 
              comp.lang.postscript article 
              (1992May13.013042.23844@NeoSoft.com), posted 13 May 1992. 


    psformat.shar 
      is a PostScript code beautifier. 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: ???. Get-From: The Adobe file server, 
              ftp.adobe.com. 


    pstoepsi 
      converts arbitrary PostScript to Encapsulated PostScript with an 
      optional preview Image using either a UNIX based or PC based 
      (TIFF) preview format. This means it can generate EPS, EPSI, and 
      EPSF. By Doug Crabill (dgc@cs.purdue.edu). 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-EPS, 
              Converts-PostScript-to-EPSI. Status: free. Platforms: 
              UNIX, need PBMPLUS and either GhostScript or OpenWindows 
              (version 2 or 3). Get-From: 
              ftp.cs.purdue.edu:pub/pstoepsi-1.2.shar.Z 


    PPM 
      utilities in the X11R4 and X11R5 distributions can convert 
      between many image formats. They handle: 

    
        color Sun raster file                       reading writing
        GIF                                         reading writing
        Amiga IFF ILBM                              reading writing
        color X11 window dump file                  reading writing
        color X10 window dump file                  reading
        MTV ray-tracer output                       reading
        QRT ray-tracer output                       reading
        TrueVision Targa file                       reading
        Img-whatnot file                            reading
        color Encapsulated PostScript                       writing
    
      See PBM and PGM for more X Windows conversion help. 


              What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms: X11. 
              Get-From: ???. 


    printer 
      uses Monofont (Courier); monosize (12 pitch). With other devps 
      programs, it supports portrait and landscape printing, manual 
      feed, reverse page order printing, message and other overlays, 
      control-L (form feed) page eject. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: commercial. 
              Platforms: UNIX, MS-DOS. Get-From: Part of Pipeline 
              Associates' devps package. 


    ps2a.sh 
      Converts PostScript to ASCII on a Sun by sending the PS into psh 
      or Ghostscript. The ASCII is spat back out on stdout. It does a 
      reasonable job since it uses positional information to determine 
      word breaks. The greatest weakness is that it does not understand 
      fonts. 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: 
              macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au:/pub/comp/src/ps2a.sh or 
              iamsun.unibe.ch:PostScript/ps2a.sh. 


    ps2ascii 
      The output from this gives a rough ascii version of the 
      postscript document. Requires a PostScript interpreter (such as 
      Ghostscript) and perl. Written by Steven Dick (ssd@engr.ucf.edu). 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: 
              apocalypse.engr.ucf.edu:/usr/ssd/ps2ascii.shar. 


    ps2ascii.pl 
      prints all the words of a PostScript program. 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX (any Perl platform). Get-From: 
              wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/ps2ascii.pl. 


    ps2ascii.ps 
      prints all the words of a PostScript program as well as the (X,Y) 
      positions. You can use the (X,Y) positions to retain the format 
      of your document, as well as just the strings. 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII, 
              Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms: 
              PostScript. Get-From: 
              wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/ps2ascii.ps. 


    ps2eps-11 
      is a UNIX program that lets you convert an EPS file into EPSF. It 
      uses GhostScript and PBMPLUS. It creates a macbinary file which 
      can be transferred to the Mac using macbinary option. It can use 
      almost any PS including that from some other Mac application 
      after cleaning with macps. 


              What: Converts-EPS-to-EPSF. Status: free. Platforms: 
              UNIX. Get-From: 
              sumex-aim.stanford.edu:info-mac/unix/ps2eps-11.shar. 


    ps2pk 
      is astandalone C program which rasterizes a PostScript font into 
      TeX's PK format. 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-TeX. Status: free. 
              Platforms: ???. Get-From: ftp.urc.tue.nl, 
              ipc1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de:/pub/tex/utilities/ps2pk, 
              rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de:/.serv2/soft/tex/utilities/ps2pk, 
              miki.cs.titech.ac.jp:/pub/text/TeX/misc/ps2pk, 
              src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/tex/fonts/utilities/ps2pk. 


    ps2txt 
      is by Iqbal Qazi. 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: ???. 
              Platforms: ???. Get-From: 
              reseq.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de in 
              /informatik.public/news/alt.sources/ps2txt, 
              keos.helsinki.fi in /pub/archives/alt.sources/ps2txt. 


    ps2a.sh 
      is a UNIX shellscript that redefines the show and related 
      operators in the manner you suggest, and decides when kerning is 
      taking place. By Leonard Hamey. 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: ftp.mpce.mq.edu.au. 


    psbook 
      can rearrange pages in a PostScript file into ``signatures''. 
      This is useful for printing books or booklets. 

      From the psutils collection by Angus Duggan. 


              What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. 
              Get-From: See the psutils entry. 


    psbox 
      allows ps files to be included in TeX documents, and allows ps 
      figures to to resized as required. 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-TeX Status: free. Platforms: 
              TeX Get-From: cs.nyu.eduu:pub/tex/psbox 


    psf 
      can do 2-up, 4-up, landscape, portrait, control fonts and sizes, 
      double-sided printing, scaling, banner page. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX, Xenix, MS-DOS. Get-From: 
              comp.sources.misc volume 12 issues 104-109, archive name 
              psf2. Or ftp to fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca:pub/psf/psf3.5.tar.Z 


    PsFrag, 
      by Craig Barratt, is a set of LaTeX macros for overlaying 
      postscript figures with fragments of LaTeX. More precisely, the 
      PsFrag macros allow specific pieces of postscript text in a 
      postscript figure (included via\epsfbox or\special) to be 
      replaced with arbitrary fragments of LaTeX. When your document is 
      latex'ed and dvips'ed, each piece of postscript text is replaced 
      by the LaTeX text. 

      The postscript file might be produced, for example, by xfig, 
      idraw, matlab, xmath, etc. Each string displayed by postscript's 
      show operator is a candidate for replacement by LaTeX text, math 
      symbols, equations, pictures etc. For example, you can include a 
      matlab plot in a LaTeX document with the title, axis labels, and 
      legend generated by LaTeX. 

      The LaTeX fragments can be optionally rotated, scaled, and 
      repositioned relative to the text being replaced. The LaTeX 
      fragments automatically track the postscript text position as the 
      postscript file is modified, or as the scaling and offsets of the 
      \special or\epsfbox are changed. 

      You need GhostScript and dvips from Radical Eye Software to use 
      the program. 


              What: Converts-TeX-to-PostScript, 
              Converts-LaTeX-to-PostScript, Text-Formatter, 
              Converts-PostScript-to-TeX, Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX. 
              Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: 
              isl.stanford.edu:pub/boyd/psfrag/psfrag.tar.Z. 


    psfig 
      allows you to include PostScript easily in your LaTeX or TeX or 
      ditroff documents. By Trevor Darrell. 


              What: Text-Formatter, Converts-PostScript-to-TeX, 
              Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX, 
              Converts-PostScript-to-Troff. Status: free. Platforms: 
              UNIX. Get-From: ftp.uu.net 
              /usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume11/psfig or 
              csc-sun.math.utah.edu:/pub/tex/pub/psfig 


    psnup 
      puts many PostScript pages on one page. 


              What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: ???. 
              Get-From: Part of psutils. . 


    PSR 
      is a DOS version of the UNIX program. 


              What: ???. Status: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. 
              Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: Bill Silvert 
              (silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca). 


    psroff3.0 
      contains programs that can convert TeX PK format or HP SFP format 
      fonts into PostScript bitmap fonts. While bitmap fonts scale 
      poorly, this is sometimes of use in special circumstances. By 
      Chris Lewis. 


              What: Converts-PK-to-PostScript, 
              Converts-SFP-to-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms: 
              UNIX, for psxlate and asc2ps also VMS. Get-From: 
              ftp.uunet.ca in distrib/chris_lewis/psroff3.0. 


    psselect 
      lets you select pages and ranges of pages to be printed from 
      among all the pages of a big document. 


              What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. 
              Get-From: See the psutils entry. 


    pstext 
      handles tabs and backspaces, prints two-up, landscape or 
      portrait. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: email to jgm@cs.brown.edu . 


    pstops 
      rearranges the pages in a PostScript file. 


              What: Page-Reordering. Status: ???. Platforms: UNIX. 
              Get-From: See the psutils entry. 


    PSTricks 
      v0.93 is an extensive collection of PostScript macros that is 
      compatible with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX , 
      LaTeX AmSTeX and AmS-LaTeX. Included are macros for color, 
      graphics, rotation, trees and overlays. It has several special 
      features: 



       * There is a wide variety of graphics (picture drawing) macros, 
         with a flexible interface and with color support. All lines 
         and outlines can be solid, dotted or dashed. Lines and curves 
         can have arrowheads, t-bars, brackets or circles on the ends. 
         Regions can be filled with solid colors, lines or crosshatch. 
         By Timothy Van Zandt 


       * There is support for polar and cartesian coordinate systems. 


       * There are macros for plots and axes. 


       * Nested rotations can be made with respect to the physical 
         page. 


       * There are flexible node macros, useful for trees, mathematical 
         diagrams, and linking information of any kind. 


       * There is a powerful loop macro that is useful for making 
         pictures. 


       * There are macros for coloring or shading the cells of tables. 


              What: Text-Formatter, Converts-PostScript-to-TeX, 
              Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX. Status: free. Platforms: 
              UNIX. Get-From: princeton.edu:pub/tvz/pstricks.tar.Z. 


    * [ PSxlate ] is part of psroff3.0, and is available from 


              What: Page-Reordering, Device-Utility. Status: free. 
              Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: comp.sources.unix archives, or 
              ftp.uunet.ca in /distrib/chris_ 
              lewis/psroff3.0/part??.Z. 


    * [ psutils ] is a set of useful PostScript utilities: epsffit, 
      getafm, psbook, psnup, psselect, pstops, and showchar. By Angus 
      Duggan 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript, Page-Reordering. 
              Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: 
              ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk:pub/ajcd/psutils.tar.Z. 


    * [ SerialOff.PS ] works with SerialEHandler.ps to communicate 
      bidirectionally to the printer. Works on PostScript 2 printers 
      only. 


              What: Device-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: . 
              Get-From: wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript. 


    * [ showchar ] outputs PostScript to draw a character with metric 
      information. 


              What: Font-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. 
              Get-From: See the psutils entry. 


    * [ spike.ps ] prints out an ASCII file in PostScript. Just prepend 
      to an ASCII file and send it to the printer. You can play with 
      the margins, font, etc. easily. By John Hughes. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: PostScript. 
              Platforms: Written-in-PostScript. Get-From: 
              wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/spike.ps. 


    * [ StripFonts ] strips out font definitions from a PostScript file 
      intended to be printed on a printer which already knows the 
      fonts. 


              What: Font-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: Macintosh. 
              Get-From: ???. 


    * [ swtext ] started off as a clone of Adobe's ``enscript'', but is 
      now greatly enhanced, and has large numbers of columns, 
      ``document'' mode with paragraph fills and *bold* and_italic _ 
      printing (controlled by *...* and_... _ respectively), more 
      control over page layout.... 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: commercial. 
              Platforms: ???. Get-From: Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall, 
              Barrington, Cambridge, CAMBS, United Kingdom. 
              scriptworks-request@harlqn.co.uk. 


    * [ t1utils ] can convert PFB to PFA. By Lee Hetherington. 


              What: Converts-PFB-to-PFA, Converts-PFA-to-PFB. Status: 
              free. Platforms: ???. Get-From: ftp.cs.umb.edu 
              (192.12.26.23): /pub/misc/t1utils-1.1.tar.Z. 


    * [ text2ps ] allows arbitrary rotation, control body font, body 
      font size, horizontal spacing, leading, left margin on even and 
      odd pages, top margin, fold long lines 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: ???. 
              Platforms: DOS, UNIX?. Get-From: comp.binaries.ibm.pc, 
              volume 1, archive name text2ps. 


    * [ TOPS ] is a very simple text to ps filter. Quite fast. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: Ian Farquhar 
              (ifarqhar@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz.au). 


    * [ Trimmer ] strips out font definitions from a PostScript file 
      intended to be printed on a printer which already knows the 
      fonts. 


              What: Font-Utility. Status: Shareware. Platforms: 
              Macintosh. Get-From: ???. 


    * [ unps ] 


              What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free. 
              Platforms: POSIX, UNIX with nawk. Get-From: 
              wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/unps. 


    * [ up ] is a Perl hack to convert ps files to n-up (conforming 
      output from conforming input, so you can pass it through 
      again...), where n is whatever you want it to be, based on a 
      configuration file. It also includes page-reordering for 
      book-making. 


              What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: Perl. 
              Get-From: comp.sources.misc late in '89 (volume 8). 


    * [ wide.ps ] prints pages of 132 characters by 103 lines in 
      portrait mode in 6 point Courier. Just prepend to an ASCII file 
      and send it to the printer. By Carl Lydick. 


              What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript, 
              Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms: 
              PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose body 
              consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to 
              FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on 
              ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV). 


    * [ wmap2ps ] converts map files (MP1 format) from John B. 
      Allison's 'The World Digitized' package to EPSF 2.0 conforming 
      PostScript files. The latitude is usually projected using the 
      mercator projection and the resulting figure may be scaled and 
      positioned to the needs of the user. 


              What: Converts-MP1-to-PostScript. Status: free. 
              Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: 
              wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/wmap2ps.shar. 


    * [ xpr ] is converts the bitmap from any X window to PostScript. 

      To convert an image to PostScript in X windows, you can display 
      the image on the screen and then use ``xpr -device ps'' in the 
      resulting X11 window. For example, to convert GIF to PostScript, 
      use xv or xshowgif (ftp from bongo.cc.utexas.edu (128.83.186.13)) 
      and then xpr. 


              What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms: X11. 
              Get-From: ???.