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Re: Help: text to postscript ? --> enscript

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From: Pete Halverson
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1991 19:36
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In article <MAECHLER.91Jun27093202@breeze.flash.bellcore.com> maechler@bellcore.com (Martin Maechler) writes:
>On Berkeley Unix systems (as SunOS), you can have the 'enscript' utility.
>						       --------
>I use it all the time taking a smaller font, or even putting two pages side
>by side on one sheet of paper in "landscape".
>I think ``you can save many trees'' like that by saving paper ...
>
>UNFORTUNATELY, I don't know where you get 'enscript', the fonts and some
>other utilities, like 'psrev' which allows you to extract selected pages
>into a new PS file (that you can print subsequently ...).
>
>Could someone post  FTP - locations where to get  enscript, etc. ?

enscript is part of Adobe's Transcript package, which provides Unix
spooling services for Laserwriters and (presumably) other PostScript
printers.  It's licensed commercial software, and as such I doubt any
public FTP sites carrying "enscript" would be doing so if Adobe's lawyers
knew of it.

I don't know if there are any PD or copylefted substitutes---the folks in
comp.lang.postscript or comp.laser-printers might have better info.

pch


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Subject: Re: Help: text to postscript ? --> enscript
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