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Article #27Re: INFO needed for APPLE LASERWRITER + troff
From: Andrew Shore
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1985 18:38
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1985 18:38
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Adobe Systems (my employer, the developer of PostScript) sells
a package called "TranScript" to drive PostScript printers from
UNIX systems. TranScript contains output translation filters for
- troff C/A/T files
- ditroff intermeditate files
- plot(5) files
- Diablo 630 print files
- simple text files ("lineprinter listings")
- Tektronix 4014 files
TranScript release 2.0 is compatible with both 4.2BSD and
System V Unix systems and contains spooler interfaces for the
4.2BSD lpr/lpd/printcap spooler and the System V lp/lpsched
spooler architectures.
TranScript supports serial communication with ALL announced
PostScript printers:
Apple LaserWriter
QMS PS-800, 1200, and 2400
Dataproducts LZR-2660 and 2665
Linotype Linotronic 100 and 300
Several other systems running under Unix produce PostScript
print files (which may be spooled and printed with TranScript);
among them:
Scribe (from Unilogic)
Two filters for TeX DVI files:
- one from Textset of Ann Arbor
- one public domain implementation
(contact the Unix-TeX people at Washington)
A driver for the S statistics package was posted to
the net some time ago.
For more information (pricing, ordering, etc.) about TranScript
or PostScript, write:
Adobe Systems Incorporated
1870 Embarcadero Road, Suite 100
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Attn: Megan Furner
Or call:
(415) 852-0271
Also, two books about PostScript (authored by Adobe Systems)
have been published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company of Reading, Mass.
"The PostScript Language Reference Manual",
336 pages, illustrated, $22.95, ISBN 0-201-10174-2
"The PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook",
256 pages, illustrated, $16.95, ISBN 0-201-10179-3
Both books should be available (or orderable) in local bookstores.
--Andy Shore
Adobe Systems Incorporated
[Many names above are trademarks or registered trademarks of
various companies, too lengthy to enumerate here.]
We are on Usenet and are 1-hop away from several ARPA sites.
We read news, laser-lovers and info-mac religiously and flame seldom.
My address is:
{decwrl glacier sun}!adobe!shore
adobe!shore@{decwrl glacier}.ARPA (or newer domain names)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site adobe.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!Glacier!adobe!shore From: shore@adobe.UUCP (Andrew Shore) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: INFO needed for APPLE LASERWRITER + troff Message-ID: <749@adobe.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 14:38:25 EDT Article-I.D.: adobe.749 Posted: Mon Oct 14 14:38:25 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Oct-85 05:51:21 EDT References: <118@strolog.UUCP> <1721@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz> Reply-To: shore@adobe.UUCP (Andrew Shore) Organization: Adobe Systems, Palo Alto Lines: 69 Keywords: PostScript, TranScript, LaserWriter