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Article #4124Re: devps vs. Transcript
From: lmm
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1987 14:30
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1987 14:30
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> Has anyone used the devps package from Pipeline Associates > for interfacing with a postscript printer? I would > nappreciate any positive or negative comments, or comparisons with > Transcript from Adobe. Devps is considerably less expensive > than Transcript. We have both packages on a machine, and use them both, I like the 'enscript' program that comes with Transcript for printing straigt text files. (the Devps has a similar program but not as flexible). When printing troff documents, Devps gives you a lot more capabilities than what I've been able to do with Transcript. ie: downloadable fonts inclusion of Macpaint documents inclusion of PostScript code in a troff document. Fancy macros to do shading, rotation, etc on text. Summary: Transcript is better for printing plain text files in various ways. Devps is better for Troff documents. (If you want to be fancy, otherwise they both work fine)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!occrsh!occrsh.ATT.COM!labsms.UUCP!lmm From: lmm@labsms.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: devps vs. Transcript Message-ID: <99600003@labsms.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 10:30:00 EDT Article-I.D.: labsms.99600003 Posted: Thu Oct 15 10:30:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 20:46:46 EDT References: <2660@dalcs.UUCP> Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:dalcs.UUCP:-266000:labsms.UUCP:99600003:000:925 Nf-From: labsms.UUCP!lmm Oct 15 09:30:00 1987