Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Subject: Re: Postscript to HPLJII under UNIX?
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.215329.4505@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 91 21:53:29 GMT
References: <91079.092124FZAAC02@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> <1991Mar21.011355.1769@johnny5.uucp>
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc, Ottawa, Canada

In article <1991Mar21.011355.1769@johnny5.uucp> garvey@johnny5.uucp (Joe Garvey) writes:
>In article <91079.092124FZAAC02@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>, FZAAC02@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Igodt, Paul G.) writes:
>> What solution is one suggesting for transposing ps-files into HPLJ-code
>> e.g. on a SUN-4 machine?  We know of the GO-Script package on PC, but this
>> is performing very inefficiently (very slow).   Is something similar under
>> UNIX somewhere present, performing well?   Our laser-printers are KYOCERA
>> F-1000 (HPLJ compatibles, with an own PRESCRIBE language.  A ps-cartridge
>> is not available for these printers, at least, not yet.)
>> Thanks a lot.                                               --Paul Igodt--

>There's been a large number of how to print on Suns recently. The answer
>is get a copy of Newsprint (costs ~ $500) and replaces transcript.
>It filters ascii, nroff, troff, Sun raster, etc into Postscript, or PCL.

This isn't quite what he asked for - he wants to convert postscript into
HPPCL.  Which is real hard.  Ghostscript is probably the best way to go
about doing the conversion if he's not able to generate HPLJ in the first
place.

>It is a smart filter package (includes thack and mpage from the net :-)).

Thack?  Not that smart ;-)  (Thack can't mount/remount arbitrary fonts inline,
doesn't come with mechanisms for building width tables for new fonts,
doesn't come with support for Laserjets or ditroff output (X windows support
for example), doesn't work with ditroff and has no Ditroff emulation
facilities - Psroff now even works with psfig and drawing commands for
CAT troff.  Then again, maybe thack has been updated recently)

>If someone maintains a FAQ for this group... how about adding this in?

There is one, but haven't seen it in a long time.  This is one topic that
should be in it "how to convert troff/ditroff etc. into Postscript".

I've been thinking of writing a FAQ for ascii and *roff to Postscript,
laserjets and other devices.  If you have recent detailed information on tools
in this category, please let me know, and I'll put together a FAQ for review.

I'd appreciate some recent info on Thack, Transcript and Newsprint (basic
capabilities).  I know tpscript and jetroff well.  Information on other
tools, particularly ASCII-to-postscript ones and previewers would also be
appreciated.  One important item I'd like to know for each tool - do they
generate Document Structuring Convention compliant code?

The FAQ I'd write would be a little more along the line of a detailed
capability list for each tool, and pointers to where they can be obtained.

Actually, if there's some online documentation for PRESCRIBE, and it's reasonably
easy to do, maybe I could put another driver into Psroff.
-- 
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