Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Subject: Re: nroff to postscript translator
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.045941.12864@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 04:59:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
References: <9043@plains.NoDak.edu> <1991Mar20.233513.19468@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc, Ottawa, Canada

In article <1991Mar20.233513.19468@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <9043@plains.NoDak.edu>, kapoor@plains.NoDak.edu (Sanju Kapoor) writes:
>|> I am looking for a nroff/troff to postscript translator.
>|> Is there a ftp site where I can get this .  Any help would be greatly 
>|> appreciated.  Thanks a lot...

>  There are at least two packages in the comp.sources.unix archives that can
>be used to produce PostScript output from nroff/troff source code.  They are
>"psroff" in volume 20 of the archives, and "tpscript" in volume 15.

Correction: neither psroff or tpscript generate Postscript output from troff
source.  They produce postscript output from troff *output* (psroff can also
generate laserjet and ditroff for ditroff filters).

(BTW: psroff works ONLY with CAT troff, tpscript works ONLY with ditroff.
Psroff 3.0 will work with real ditroff too)

Please don't use the version of psroff in the comp.sources.unix archives.
It's obsolete.  /pub/psroff on uunet is up-to-date (psroff 2.0, PL7)

>  Note that the psroff being discussed here is different from the psroff that
>Adobe sells.

F'r sure.  (I wrote it, I should know ;-)

(I've mailed the psroff info package off to Sanju separately)
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