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- -- PostScript Sources --
-
- Introduction to comp.sources.postscript
-
- (the comp.sources.postscript FAQ v1.13)
-
- Allen Braunsdorf
-
- postscript-faq@cc.purdue.edu
-
-
-
-
-
-
- This FAQ is formatted as a digest.
-
- Most news readers can skip from one question
-
- to the next by pressing control-G. GNUs uses
-
- C-c C-n to skip to the next question.
-
-
- To contribute sources, read the section ``Submitting
- Sources''.
-
- Newsgroup-related mail that is not a submission should be
- sent to me at postscript-request@cc.purdue.edu
-
- Related FAQs: comp.lang.postscript, comp.sources.misc,
- comp.text, comp.text.tex, comp.fonts, comp.graphics.
-
- The comp.sources.postscript archives are available by ftp
- to ftp.sterling.com in /usenet/comp.sources.postscript/ or
- ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de in /usenet/comp.sources.postscript.
- There is an index in the last section of this FAQ.
-
- This FAQ and the indexes are available by anonymous ftp to
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/comp.sources.postscript. You can get
- the comp.lang.postscript FAQ by anonymous ftp to
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/comp.lang.postscript. Both come in
- ASCII, LaTeX, DVI, and PostScript formats.
-
-
- 5 PostScript Interpreters and Utilities
-
- This section lists all the large PostScript programs that I
- know of, both commercial and for free. These programs have
- largely not been posted to comp.sources.postscript, but
- there are references about where to get all programs. You
- should look at the comp.sources.postscript index to see all
- the PostScript programs posted there.
-
- I would like very much to be able to recommend some of
- these programs over others. Unfortunately, I have very
- little information about most of them. Please send
- information or additions! Programs without significant
- information will be dropped shortly.
-
- Included in this index are a number of ASCII to PostScript
- conversion programs. These are quick and dirty programs,
- and it is unclear why having so many of them is
- interesting, so many will probably be deleted (send mail
- about the ones you like most). If you really want to
- convert ASCII to PostScript in a high quality way, what you
- want is a real text formatter. (See the FAQ for comp.text
- and comp.text.tex)
-
- If you have a program, please let me know. Section 10 of
- the comp.lang.postscript FAQ, ``About the FAQ'' has some
- hints on what I'm hoping to get when I get a program
- description.
-
- I am grateful to Howard Gayle (howard@hal.com) for a large
- portion of the below information.
-
- Now that there is Linux, IBM PC (and clone) users can run
- any of the X-windows and UNIX programs in the utilities
- section.
-
-
- 5.1 How can I find a program?
-
- To find a program, try using an ``archie'' server. Archie
- will figure out which FTP sites have the program that you
- are looking for. Please try archie before asking people for
- the program.
-
- I would be happy to answer questions about where to get
- programs. Just send me email. If you find a good ftp site
- for these programs, please let me know.
-
- To use archie, just type ``archie'' or ``xarchie''. If you
- don't have that program, then you can telnet to one of the
- following addresses and type ``archie'' as the username. To
- get help type ``help''.
-
-
- archie.rutgers.edu (Rutgers University)
- archie.unl.edu (University of Nebraska in Lincoln)
- archie.sura.net (SURAnet archie server)
- archie.ans.net (ANS archie server)
- archie.au (Australian server)
- archie.funet.fi (European server in Finland)
- archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (UK/England server)
- archie.cs.huji.ac.il (Israel server)
- archie.wide.ad.jp (Japanese server)
-
- If you don't have telnet, send email to archie at any of
- the above sites with the subject ``help''.
-
-
- 5.2 How can I browse through PostScript programs?
-
- To find ftp sites that carry PostScript programs, try
- ``archie postscript''. Then use ftp to look through them.
-
-
- 5.3 Keywords
-
-
-
- What:
-
-
-
- Bounding-Box
- Determines the bounding box of a PostScript program
- (so it can be converted to EPSF for example).
-
-
- Converts
- The program converts back and forth between formats
- such as: ASCII, PostScript, TeX, Images, PCL
-
-
- Converts-Images
- A program that converts to too many image formats to
- name!
-
-
- Device-Utility
- A utility for a PostScript device.
-
-
- Document-Previewer
- The previewer has options for viewing text documents.
- NOTE: most previewers make passable document previewer
- even without these extra options.
-
-
- Example
- The source code for this program is a programming
- example for programmers.
-
-
- Font-Utility
- The program does something useful with font
- descriptions.
-
-
- Interpreter
- The program can understand the PostScript language.
-
-
- Level-2
- The program can interpret a reasonable amount of
- PostScript level 2.
-
-
- Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver
- The program allows PostScript drawings to be printed
- on at least one non-PostScript printer.
-
-
- Page-Reordering
- The program allows you to either choose a page or a
- few pages to print from a big document, or lets you
- print in reverse order, or lets you ``N-Up'', which
- means to put more than one page on a physical page.
- These programs work only if the PostScript input
- follows the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions.
- (See Section 9 of the comp.lang.postscript FAQ,
- ``Encapsulated PostScript'').
-
-
- Previewer
- The interpreter displays PostScript on the screen.
-
-
- Programmer-Utility
- The program helps write PostScript programs.
-
-
- Text-Formatter
- The program formats text in some interesting way, or
- lets you include PostScript in a text formatter.
-
-
- Written-in-PostScript
- The program is written entirely in PostScript and thus
- can run on any computer with an interpreter, or on any
- PostScript printer.
-
-
- Status
-
-
-
- Shareware
- means that the program is free but the author would
- like money.
-
-
- Free
- means that the program is freely available. This
- usually means that source code is included and that it
- is freely distributable.
-
-
- Commercial
- means that some company sells the program.
-
-
- Platforms:
- What computers does it run on? For the IBM PC, look
- for ``MS-DOS''. For most workstations, look for
- ``UNIX''.
-
-
- Get-From
- tells where to get the program, through ftp or some
- other source.
-
-
- 5.4 Interpreters
-
- The following are all programs that understand the
- PostScript graphics programming language. PostScript is an
- interpreted language, which means that there is no compiler
- for it. An interpreter is like a compiler that, instead of
- producing a sequence of actions in machine language for the
- computer to handle at some future time, performs the
- actions itself immediately.
-
- Most interpreters are also previewers, which allow you to
- view the PostScript drawing as it is created by the
- PostScript program. Unfortunately, viewing the document
- on-line is not guaranteed to be a perfect simulation of
- printing the document. Complex programs that use random
- numbers or check the device type will almost certainly run
- differently.
-
- Some interpreters are meant for looking at text documents
- without printing them. They usually have a number of
- functions for flipping back and forth between pages. These
- interpreters are called document previewers.
-
-
-
- dxpsview
- from DEC provides user selectable options to control its
- execution. It will accept DSC comments and honor them,
- but it allows the user to turn them off if that's the
- best thing to do.
-
- It images valid PostScript, it honors color (if the DEC
- workstation is a color workstation), it images one page
- and stops with the showpage so the user can see the
- image. It allows you to page back and forth in the
- document EVEN IF IT'S NOT DSC! (Sure, slow at times if
- it's not DSC, but it still does the job!) It provides
- scaling and rotation under user control.
-
-
- What: Previewer. Status: commercial. Platforms:
- DEC workstation. Get-From: Digital Equipment
- Corporation.
-
-
- Freedom of Press
- ???
-
- For most users who only want to print to common printers
- like DeskWriters, StyleWriters, or Personal LaserWriter
- LS's, the light version of Freedom of the Press will
- suffice. ( $ 55).
-
-
- What: Interpreter, Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver.
- Status: commercial ( $ 55). Platforms: ???.
- Get-From: ???.
-
-
- Gammascript
- ???
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: ???. Platforms:
- MS-DOS. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- Ghostscript
- is perhaps the most popular previewer. It is a PostScript
- interpreter written by L. Peter Deutsch, and is
- distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General
- Public License. Unlike commercial interpreters,
- ghostscript isn't tied to a particular piece of hardware.
- Ghostscript will compile on most common platforms, and
- has drivers for many common peripherals, including X11R [
- 345 ] , MS-DOS-VGA, Deskjet 500, Epson dot matrix
- printers, and HP laserjets.
-
- Ghostscript deals well with ``normal'' documents, such as
- output from Tomas Rokicki's dvips. If you're into testing
- the outer limits of PostScript, however, your mileage
- with Ghostscript may vary. The output character quality
- is (obviously) dependent upon the fonts which ghostscript
- uses. Most of ghostscript's fonts are outlines generated
- from the bitmap fonts that were donated by Adobe to the X
- consortium. These are certainly good enough for screen
- previewing, and rough drafts, but show their limitations
- when used on laser printers. Fortunately, Ghostscript can
- use type 1 fonts, so if you happen to have some around,
- you'll find that the output quality is very close to that
- of a PostScript interpreter. Ghostscript comes with a few
- type 1 fonts that were donated to the X consortium from
- Adobe, IBM, and Bitstream. Note that if you're using TeX
- or LaTeX with the cmr fonts, this last statement implies
- that ghostscript will probably suit your needs, since
- your dvi-to-ps converter will include the cmr fonts in
- its output PostScript file. It also handles the special
- hints in Adobe Type 1 fonts (see Section 4 of the
- comp.lang.postscript FAQ, ``Fonts'').
-
- If you're using IBM OS/2 2.0, you can make a Ghostscript
- icon and drag PostScript files onto it and they'll be
- printed automatically.
-
- Ghostscript 2.2 has been ported to the Atari ST platform
- by Timothy Gallivan. It's available by ftp to
- atari.archive.umich.edu.
-
- Ghostscript has been ported to Amiga. It's available at
- any Aminet FTP site, for example wuarchive.wustl.edu
- pub/aminet/text/print/. The files are
- 'ghostscript2.6.1.lha' and 'gs2.3-fonts.lha'.
-
- For more information about Ghostscript, read the
- gnu.ghostscript.bug newsgroup, or contact the author,
- Peter Deutsch, at ghost@aladdin.com.
-
-
- What: Interpreter, Previewer, Programmer-Utility,
- User-Utility, Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver,
- Level-2, Converts-PostScript-to-GIF,
- Converts-PostScript-to-PBM. Status: free.
- Platforms: MS-DOS, UNIX, VMS, Xwindows,
- Macintosh, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari-ST.
- Get-From: Japan: ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp,
- utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:ftpsync/prep Australia:
- archie.oz.au:gnu Europe: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:gnu,
- ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de,
- ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:pub/gnu,
- nic.funet.fi:pub/gnu, ugle.unit.no, isy.liu.se,
- ftp.stacken.kth.se, sunic.sunet.se,
- ftp.win.tue.nl, ftp.diku.dk, ftp.eunet.ch,
- archive.eu.net United States:
- ftp.cs.wisc.edu:pub/X, prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu,
- wuarchive.wustl.edu, ftp.cs.widener.edu,
- uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, col.hp.com,
- gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/GNU,
- ftp.uu.net:systems/gnu. Macintosh:
- ftp.cs.wisc.edu:pub/ghost/ghostscript-2.5.2runtime*mac.hqx
- Archimedes: contact David Elworthy
- (David.Elworthy@cl.cam.ac.uk). Amiga: available
- at any Aminet FTP site, for example
- wuarchive.wustl.edu pub/aminet/text/print/. The
- files are 'ghostscript2.6.1.lha' and
- 'gs2.3-fonts.lha'.
-
- See Ghostview and GSPreview.
-
-
- Ghostview
- is an X11 user interface for ghostscript. It was written
- by Tim Theisen, and is distributed under the terms of the
- GNU General Public License. Ghostview runs on UNIX and
- VMS platforms. To compile ghostview, you should have the
- X11R5 distribution from MIT. Many vendors do not provide
- the Athena widgets.
-
- Ghostview provides a menu driven interface with ample
- keyboard accelerators. It also provides popup zoom
- windows and the ability to save or print selected pages.
-
- For more information about ghostview, contact the author,
- Tim Theisen, at ghostview@cs.wisc.edu.
-
-
- What: Bounding-Box, Document-Previewer, Level-2,
- Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: X11 on
- Unix or VMS systems. Get-From: Source:
- ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-1.4.1.tar.Z or
- prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ghostview-1.4.1.tar.Z or
- other GNU distribution points (see ghostscript's
- listing) Binaries:
- ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-exe directory.
-
-
- GoScript 3.0
- ???
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: ???. Platforms:
- MS-DOS. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- GSPreview
- A document previewer based on GhostScript, by Richard
- Hesketh.
-
-
- What: Document-Previewer, Level-2. Status: free.
- Platforms: X Windows. Get-From: prep.ai.mit.edu.
-
-
- Hijack-PS
- is part of the Hijaak packge for DOS, or for Windows.
-
-
- What: Interpreter, Converts-???. Status:
- commercial. Platforms: IBM PC. Get-From:
- MicroWarehouse sells it for $ 129.
-
-
- Island Draw
- is a picture editor that can save in and read in
- PostScript. It contains a full PostScript interpreter.
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: ???. Platforms: ???.
- Get-From: ???.
-
-
- JAWS
- ???
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: Commercial. Platforms:
- Sun. Get-From: ???.
-
- Where to get it: uad1077@dircon.co.uk
-
-
- Magus Pageturner
- is a front-end for Ghostscript that (like Ghostview)
- allows you to browse documents easily.
-
-
- What: Interpreter Status: Commercial Platforms:
- IBM PC, OS/2 2.1 Get-From: Indelible Blue, Inc.
- (800-776-8284; 919-878-9700).
-
-
- NeXTStep,
- release 3.2 supports full level 2 PostScript.
-
-
- What: Interpreter/OS/OO-Framework. Status:
- commercial. Platforms: NeXT, Intel-486. Get-From:
- NeXT (800-848-NEXT), PC-Connection,
- Next-Connection (800-800-NEXT)
-
-
- Opium
- converts PostScript to several raster image formats. It
- has several language extensions relating to image
- processing (alpha channel, ``forall'' for images etc.)
- and usability of PostScript as a general purpose script
- language (``system'', secure and non-secure modes, etc.)
- Converts to TIFF 5.0 (including RLE, LZW, fax3, fax4, and
- JPEG compressions), PBM, PGM, PPM, Sixel (VT240, LN03),
- Group 3 fax, ASCII, and HPGL (experimental).
-
-
- What: Interpreter, Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII,
- Converts PostScript-to-TIFF, Converts-Images,
- Level-2, Converts-PostScript-to-HPGL. Status:
- commercial. Platforms: UNIX, Sun, DECstation,
- AIX, NeXT, Alpha and VMS. Get-From: Stream
- Technologies Inc., Valkjarventie 2, SF-02130
- Espoo, FINLAND, Tel: +358 0 43577340, Fax: +358 0
- 43577348, Email: info@sti.fi.
-
-
- pageview
- can preview PostScript on the Sun screen. The document
- must follow the DSC conventions described in section 9 of
- the comp.lang.postscript FAQ (EPSF).
-
-
- What: Previewer. Status: commercial. Platforms:
- OpenWindows. Get-From: Sun.
-
-
- PixelScript
- ???
-
-
- What: Interpreter, Previewer. Status: commercial.
- Platforms: Amiga. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- PowerPage
- from Pipeline Associates handles the special hints in
- Adobe Type 1 fonts (see Section 4 of the
- comp.lang.postscript FAQ, ``Fonts'').
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: commercial. Platforms:
- ???. Get-From: Pipeline Associates.
-
-
- Post
- turns PostScript files into screen images, image files,
- and prints on non-PostScript printers. Scaling & pixel
- density are adjustable by the user. It is excellent,
- works in color, supports types 1 and 3 fonts. By Adrian
- Aylward, 20 Maidstone Rd Swindon, WILTS. UK.
-
- This is not the same as Post for MS-DOS.
-
-
- What: Interpreter, Previewer, Converts-Images.
- Status: free. Platforms: Amiga. Get-From:
- Compuserve, or from any Amiga PD source, in the
- well-known Fred Fish collection. Current version
- is 1.7, on Fish Disk 669. Or
- grind.isca.uiowa.edu, gatekeeper.dec.com [
- /pub/micro/amiga/fish ] , monu6.cc.monash.edu.au,
- ux1.cso.uiuc.edu [ amiga/fish/f6/ff669 ] .
-
-
- PS-Magic
- ???
-
- Registration is $ 40 and includes the usual 40 font
- family. Otherwise it only includes the Times font family.
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: shareware ( $ 40).
- Platforms: ???. Get-From: Advantage Computer, Box
- 524, Fremont CA 94537, U.S.A. Or, in Toronto, it
- can be downloaded from CRS: Canada Remote Systems
- (Mississauga).
-
-
- PSView
- ???
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: ???. Platforms:
- Macintosh. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- TScript
- ???
-
- For most users who only want to print to common printers
- like DeskWriters, StyleWriters, or Personal LaserWriter
- LS's, the Basic version of TScript will suffice ( $ 55).
-
- A more complex version is available that works with more
- esoteric printers, particularly color printers and
- very-high-end imagesetters.
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: commercial ( $ 55).
- Platforms: Macintosh. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- UltraScript PC
- is a PostScript previewer for level 1 PostScript only.
-
- UltraScript PC can print from within an application. This
- feature requires about 1 Mbyte of memory above the
- minimum requirement. It can process hinted type-1 (Adobe)
- fonts. The products include QMS fonts with metrics that
- match those of Adobe's fonts.
-
- The main PostScript interpreter in UltraScript PC runs as
- a TSR, mostly living in extended memory (occupies about
- 24K below the 640K line). There is a different TSR called
- PCAPTURE that intercepts LPTn output and routes it to
- UltraScript, which interprets it and prints to the real
- printer. There's also a front-end program which selects
- printing from an already-existing file or lets you run in
- interactive mode (similar to ``executive'' on a
- PostScript printer).
-
- UltraScript PC is $ 195. It runs in PC/AT compatibles and
- needs about 1M of extended memory. The basic version
- includes 25 fonts. UltraScript PC Plus is $ 445 includes
- 47 fonts. The previewer requires Microsoft Windows 3.
-
- UltraScript for the Macintosh requires at least a 2 Mbyte
- system to run. The basic version is $ 195 and includes 15
- fonts. UltraScript Plus is $ 495, includes 43 fonts, and
- has an AppleTalk print spooler. It appears on the Chooser
- as a printer.
-
-
- What: Previewer, Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver,
- Converts-PostScript-to-PCL,
- Converts-PostScript-to-PCX,
- Converts-PostScript-to-TIFF. Status: commercial.
- Platforms: MS-DOS, Macintosh. Get-From: PM Ware
- in Escondido, California, 1-800-845-4843 or
- 1-619-738-6633. CompuClassics, phone
- 1-800-733-3888.
-
-
- 5.5 Utilities
-
- The following are utilities intended to make using
- PostScript or programming in PostScript easier. Many
- interpreters are also very useful utilities. A program that
- makes something nice-looking but does not help you use or
- program in PostScript would be in one of the next section,
- PostScript Programs. This section has not yet been
- created, but I am accepting information for it!
-
-
-
- a2ps
- v4.2 places two pages on each physical page, borders
- surrounding pages, headers, line numbering, multiple
- copies, landscape and portrait mode, wide format, lines
- numbering, fold/cut long lines, control font size. It can
- handle 8 bit characters, twin pages in portrait mode, and
- two-side printing.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX, MS-DOS. Get-From: ftp from
- imag.fr, in archive/postscript.
-
-
- asc2ps
- is part of Psroff3.0, and is integrated with psxlate. It
- is of particular interest because it understands nroff's
- backspace bold and italic conventions and doesn't
- introduce lots of extra bells and whistles.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: ???. Get-From: See Psroff3.0.
-
-
- asciiprint.ps
- ???
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript, Example.
- Status: free. Platforms: PostScript. Get-From:
- zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston).
-
-
- ato2pps
- prints ASCII printable text boxed, 2-up, in landscape
- mode. Prints boxed header with date & time, file name,
- and page number.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX, possibly available on Macintosh
- (C program). Get-From: Mark Edwards
- (edwards@vms.macc.wisc.edu).
-
-
- Bar-a-Coda
- is an application for creating PostScript (EPS and EPSI)
- and TIFF bar codes. Bar-a-Coda allows you to easily
- create an individual bar code, a sheet, or many sheets.
-
-
- BarCodeKit
- is an object library (in Objective-C) for creating
- PostScript (EPS and EPSI) and TIFF bar codes.
-
- The two products offer every major bar code symbology.
- They can also create two-dimensional/multiple row bar
- codes.
-
- Bar codes can be scaled and rotated, colorized, dragged
- and dropped into documents and accessed from any
- application via the NEXTSTEP Services menu.
-
-
- What: User-Utility. Status: Commercial.
- Platforms: NEXTSTEP. Get-From: Hot Technologies,
- email to info@hot.com or phone 617-252-0088.
-
-
- bbfig
- will let you calculate the bounding box of a PostScript
- picture. It prints the figure and then calculates the
- bounding box around the figure and print the box and its
- coordinates. This usually works. However, for the times
- that it fails you have to measure it by hand.
-
-
- What: Bounding-Box. Status: free. Platforms: ???.
- Get-From:
- world.std.com:/src/text/tex/dvips/contrib,
- emx.cc.utexas.edu:/pub/mnt/source/tex/dvi3ps,
- isfs.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp:/TeX/styles/kth.se.
-
-
- behandler.ps
- is a PostScript error handler. If you prepend it to a
- broken PostScript file it will give a lot of information
- when the program crashes.
-
-
- What: Programmer-Utility. Status: free.
- Platforms: PostScript. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/behandler.ps
- and behandler.doc.
-
-
- cz
- is table-driven, handles almost any character set, uses
- any font on printer, control font sizes, paper size, page
- layout, number of columns, line numbers, portrait or
- landscape mode, page reversal, leading (line spacing),
- tab expansion. Emacs interface. By Howard Gayle.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: comp.sources.misc
- volume 8 issues 65-75, 77-78 ( 1 Oct 1989) issue
- 97 (28 Oct 1989) (Other prerequisites: see README
- file at beginning of issue 65.).
-
-
- crossword.ps
- converts a specially formatted ASCII file to a crossword
- puzzle. By Carl Lydick. Just prepend to an ASCII file and
- send it to the printer.
-
-
- What: Written-in-PostScript,
- Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: send a mail
- message whose body consists of the line ``SEND
- ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to
- FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on
- ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV).
-
-
- double.ps
- prints two pages of ASCII side by side in landscape mode.
- By Carl Lydick.
-
-
- What: Written-in-PostScript,
- Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: send a mail
- message whose body consists of the line ``SEND
- ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to
- FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on
- ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV).
-
-
- dvips
- , by Tomas Rokicki of Radical Eye Software, is the most
- popular DVI to PostScript conversion program. It converts
- TeX and LaTeX DVI files into PostScript. It also allow
- you to use PostScript fonts and PostScript graphics
- inside TeX and LaTeX documents. The distribution includes
- the epsffile and psfig macro packages for including
- PostScript graphics.
-
-
- What: Converts-DVI-to-PostScript,
- Converts-PostScript-to-TeX,
- Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- labrea.stanford.edu:/pub/dvips*.tar.Z.
-
-
- Documenter's Workbench (DWB)
- is the successor to the original Bell Labs version of
- troff. The current package, DWB 3.4, includes 86
- commands: troff, tbl, eqn, grap, pic, picasso, a pipeline
- builder, PostScript drivers and utilities for bounding
- box computation and device interrogation; optional (at no
- cost) LaserJet and Imagen printer support; man, mm and
- other macro packages, font tables, etc. A companion
- add-on, DWBX 3.4, provides an X Window previewer, drawing
- program, spell corrector and hypertext man page viewer.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript Status:
- Commercial. Platforms: UNIX Get-From: AT & T
- Software Solutions, 1-800-462-8146 (US),
- +1-908-580-5719 from elsewhere; fax
- 1-908-580-6355. Technical inquiries:
- dwb@mhpo.att.com.
-
-
- enscript
- formats text in 1 or 2 columns, portrait or landscape,
- manual paper feed, headers, line printer simulation, line
- wrap or truncation, control lines on page, fonts.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status:
- commercial -- a part of Transcript. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From: Adobe Systems.
-
-
- epsffile
- TeX macros to include PostScript figures in TeX or LaTeX
- documents.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-TeX,
- Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: See the dvips entry.
-
-
- epsffit
- fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box.
-
-
- What: Bounding-Box. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From: See the psutils entry.
-
-
- epsfinfo.ps
- converts PostScript output to encapsulated PostScript.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-EPS. Status: free.
- Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: The Adobe
- fileserver: ftp.adobe.com.
-
-
- epsonps
- Epson LX-800 to PostScript translator, supports
- international character sets, IBM graphics characters,
- different width fonts, bit-mapped graphics.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: comp.sources.misc.
-
-
- eps2epsi
- does a conversion if you have GhostScript and Perl.
-
-
- What: Converts-EPS-to-EPSI. Status: free.
- Platforms: Perl. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/eps2epsi.shar.
-
-
- ETSR
- in an Epson MX-80 to PostScript translator, includes
- Epson Mx-80 graphics modes, supports virtual printers,
- PrintScreen key
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status:
- commercial. Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: $ 75
- from Niche Marketing, 7198 Camino Colegio,
- Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA. Phone +1
- 707-795-7306. Overseas shipping is $ 5 extra. CA
- residents please include 6.25 % sales tax.
-
-
- fixbb
- Gets the bounding box of a PostScript file made with
- Framemaker, because Frame gets it wrong sometimes. Uses
- an idea of Doug Crabhill's.
-
-
- What: Bounding-Box. Status: free. Platforms: You
- need Poskanzer's pbm toolkit, Ghostscript, and
- GNU awk (or awk and sed). Get-From: email to
- jgm@cs.brown.edu.
-
-
- fontutils
- ???
-
- The GNU font-making utilities. They can convert a
- PostScript font to TeX's TK format.
-
-
- What: Convert-PostScript-to-TK. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu.
-
-
- getafm
- outputs PostScript to retrieve an AFM file from printer.
-
-
- What: Device-Utility. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From: See the psutils entry.
-
-
- Groff
- is a Free Software Foundation package that can convert
- troff to PostScript.
-
-
- What: Converts-Troff-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX, C++. Get-From: prep.ai.mit.edu.
-
-
- gs_2asc.ps
- prints all the characters of a PostScript program as well
- as the (X,Y) positions. You can use the (X,Y) positions
- to retain the format of your document, as well as just
- the strings.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free.
- Platforms: GhostScript. Get-From: included in
- GhostScript.
-
-
- hp2pbm
- can convert all of PCL4 (up to and including rasters,
- downloaded fonts and macros). It's somewhat slow because
- it converts PCL into Poskanzer's Portable Bitmap format
- rasters (PBM) before generating PostScript, but it's
- theoretically pixel-for-pixel identical with the original
- PCL. Plus it's capable of driving many other types of
- graphics devices or printers.
-
-
- What: Converts-PCL-to-PBM,
- Converts-PCL-to-PostScript, Interpreter,
- Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: comp.sources.misc,
- soon to be a part of Psroff3.0.
-
-
- hp2ps
- is an HPGL interpreter written in Postscript, with a
- small C wrapper program, to allow programs written for
- most pen plotters to work on Postscript output devices.
- Written by Alun Jones (alun@wst.com).
-
-
- What: Converts-HPGL-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: PostScript, C. Get-From:
- huey.wst.com:/pub/hp2ps.
-
-
- hp2xx
- can convert HPGL into encapsulated PostScript.
-
-
- What: Converts-HPGL-to-PostScript,
- Converts-HPGL-to-EPS Status: free. Platforms: ???
- Get-From:
- aeneas.mit.edu:pub/gnu/hp2xx-3.1.0.tar.z
-
-
- hpscat
- features Hangul (Korean).
-
- Unfortunately, font is not a part of 'hpscat'. It's a
- property of ELEX Inc., a Korean Mac dealer.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: ???.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: kum.kaist.ac.kr or
- cair.kaist.ac.kr.
-
-
- i2ps
- handles ISO 8859/1 and Norwegian ISO 646. Written in
- Perl. Line numbers, wrap or truncate long lines,
- landscape, 2 or 3 column, control body font size.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX (any Perl platform). Get-From:
- Get-from alt.sources article
- (AAS.90Oct30172546@boeygen.nr.no) posted 30
- October 1990.
-
-
- ImageMagick
- is an X11 package for display and interactive
- manipulation of images. Includes tools for image
- conversion, annotation, compositing, animation, and
- creating montages. ImageMagick can read and write many of
- the more popular image formats including Postscript. By
- John Cristy (cristy@dupont.com), E. I. du Pont de Nemours
- & Co.
-
- ImageMagick uses GhostScript.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images,
- Converts-PostScript-to-TIFF, Document-Previewer,
- Converts-TIFF-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: X11. Get-From:
- export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z.
-
-
- imtools
- Converts just about everything in the image bitmap
- universe.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From: San Diego Supercomputer Center
- distributes binaries only.
-
-
- Impressario
- Converts text, SGI image, and PostScript (and a number of
- other formats) to print on HP Series II and III (PCL4 and
- above) printers. It includes format conversions, and even
- does line-by-line adaptive compression to ensure the
- fastest transmission times.
-
- It's for use on any SGI box running IRIX 4.0.1 or later.
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-PCL. Status: Commercial, $
- 800. Platforms: SGI's IRIX. Get-From: Silicon Graphics.
-
-
- LameTeX
- can convert simple LaTeX to PostScript or to ASCII.
-
- It specializes in complete versatility of the printed
- page. The standard model for text formatters is that
- every page is necessarily rectangular. LameTeX will let
- you format text inside a triangular page, or a circle
- page. Just like professional magazine editors, you can
- include pictures of any shape and ask the text to flow
- around them or inside them.
-
- These flexible arbitrarily-shaped margins are PostScript
- paths. If you don't know PostScript, it contains a big
- library of interesting LameTeX page margins. With LameTeX
- you can fit several ``pages'' onto one 8.5x11 inch piece
- of paper, so you can easily make index cards, labels, and
- half-pages of text.
-
- Also, if you know how to write programs in PostScript,
- LameTeX allows you to very tightly integrate your LameTeX
- commands with your PostScript code. In fact, the
- PostScript that LameTeX outputs is nicely formatted and
- commented so that you can modify it yourself and see how
- it's done. LameTeX is written with PostScript version 1,
- so it should run on all PostScript printers.
-
- LameTeX is in use for Usenet FAQs for
- comp.lang.postscript, comp.sources.postscript,
- comp.text.tex, rec.boats, comp.fonts, alt.quotations,
- etc.
-
- Finally, everything about LameTeX is set up to be
- compatible with LaTeX. LameTeX can't do everything that
- LaTeX can, but the special stealth commands guarantee
- that your fancy LameTeX document can be processed by
- normal LaTeX. This allows you to share it with anyone who
- doesn't happen to have LameTeX.
-
- By Jon Monsarrat, jgm@cs.brown.edu.
-
-
- What: Converts-LaTeX-to-PostScript,
- Text-Formatter, Converts-LaTeX-to-ASCII. Status:
- free. Platforms: UNIX, any C++ platform.
- Get-From: wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/lametex.tar.Z.
-
-
- landscape.ps
- prints pages of 132 characters by 60 lines in landscape
- mode in 9 point Courier. By Carl Lydick. Just prepend to
- an ASCII file and send it to the printer.
-
-
- What: Written-in-PostScript,
- Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: send a mail
- message whose body consists of the line ``SEND
- ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to
- FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on
- ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV).
-
-
- LaserWriter 8
- converts Macintosh Postscript to Encapsulated PostScript
- (EPS)
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-EPS. Status: free
- Platforms: Mac. Get-From:
- ftp.apple.com:dts/mac/sys.soft/imaging/laserwriter8.x.
-
-
- lineprinter.ps
- is a simple text to PostScript translator.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: ???.
- Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: from the Adobe
- file server (see Section 6 of the
- comp.lang.postscript FAQ, ``About Adobe'').
-
-
- lj2ps
- does a conversion of a (small) subset of PCL into
- PostScript. By Chris Lewis.
-
- There is a different lj2ps in psroff3.0 which does a
- somewhat more complete job (handles downloaded LJ fonts)
- and should work well with most ``WP'' or text processing
- applications.
-
-
- What: Converts-PCL-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: comp.sources.misc.
-
-
- lpp
- features headers, different paper sizes, borders, font,
- font size, banner page, truncate or fold long lines,
- adjust margins, Swedish ISO 646, ISO 8859/1, multiple
- copies, landscape or portrait, multiple columns,
- localized date, double-sided printing, nroff font
- selection, and more.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX, VMS, TOPS-20. Get-From: send
- request to fred@nada.kth.se (Fredric Ihren).
- UNIX-version is shareware ( 8 single-user, 12
- multi-user). TOPS-20 and VMS versions free.
- .
-
-
- lprps
- is a collection of programs for interfacing the BSD lpr
- spooler to a PostScript printer over a bidirectional
- serial link.
-
-
-
- What:
- Device-Utility
-
- Status:
- free
-
- Platforms:
- UNIX (SunOS, Ultrix, and other BSD-based
- versions)
-
- Get-From:
- comp.sources.misc volumes 31 and 32, or
- ftp.jclark.com:/pub/lprps/lprps-2.4.tar.Z
-
- lwf features indent, portrait/landscape, margin adjust,
- page range, point size, tab stops, headers, page
- reversal, multicolumn printing (via pr).
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX.
-
- Get-From:
- ftp.cs.ubc.ca or pub/local/src/lwf-2.2.shar.Z
-
-
- macps
- is a Unix program that takes an uploaded PostScript file
- created on a Macintosh (by typing Command-F at the
- LaserWriter dialog box; see macps.1 for more details) and
- includes an appropriately modified LaserPrep file so that
- the result can be sent to a PostScript printer from Unix.
- The LaserPrep file contains macros used by the PostScript
- generator on the Macintosh.
-
- Macps is difficult to install, and may not really be
- necessary.
-
-
- What: Device-Utility. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From:
- src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/computing/systems/mac/macps/macps-23.shar
- and
- sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/unix/macps-23.shar.
-
-
- mutips
- is a package that can print four pages to a sheet, etc.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms:
- ???. Get-From: ftp.su.oz.au: pub/ps_
- printing/multi/*
-
-
- mp
- lets you print mail messages and news articles, including
- digests, as well as ASCII text files. 2-up landscape
- mode. Prints Filofax, Franklin Planner, Time Manager, and
- Time/System International formats.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: iesd.auc.dk
- (130.225.48.4) in the PostScript directory, or
- ftp.adelaide.edu.au (129.127.40.3) in the
- pub/sun/richb directory.
-
-
- mpage
- prints ASCII or PostScript 1-, 2-, 4-, or 8-up,
- optionally boxed or landscape. Automatically figures out
- whether input is ASCII text or PostScript. Can arrange
- pages down or across and print a count of pages printed.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- ftp.eng.umd.edu:pub/misc/mpage-2.tar.Z.
-
-
- nenscript
- is an enscript clone.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: MS-DOS, UNIX, OS/2. Get-From:
- comp.lang.postscript article
- (geoffw.718500346@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU), posted 7
- October 1992. You can find nenscript for OS/2
- 1.x--2.0 and MSDOS on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in
- pub/os2/all/nensc113.zip. A portable unzip
- program is available in comp.sources.misc.
-
-
- netpbm
- can convert between a lot of image formats. By Jef
- Poskanzer. The old name for this tool is pbmplus. You can
- convert images to PostScript and back.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: free Platforms: C
- Get-From:
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/graphics/graphics/packages/NetPBM
- or ftp.cs.ubc.ca:/ftp/archive/netpbm
-
-
- numbered.ps
- prints pages of 80 characters by 58 lines in portrait
- mode, with pages numbered in the lower-right corner in 11
- point Courier. By Carl Lydick. Just prepend to an ASCII
- file and send it to the printer.
-
-
- What: Written-in-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: send a mail
- message whose body consists of the line ``SEND
- ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to
- FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on
- ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV).
-
-
- quarto.c
- shuffles and scales PostScript pages. It does signature
- printing, reversal, page selection, page listing, etc. By
- Michael Hawley.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms:
- C. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/quarto.c.
-
-
- PBM utilities
- in the X11R4 and X11R5 distributions can convert between
- many image formats. They handle:
-
-
- Sun icon file reading writing
- Sun raster file reading writing
- X10 and X11 bitmap file reading writing
- MacPaint reading writing
- CMU window manager format reading writing
- MGR format reading writing
- Group 3 FAX reading writing
- X11 window dump file reading writing
- X10 window dump file reading
- Xerox doodle brushes reading
- GEM .img format reading
- PC paintbrush (.pcx) format reading
- PICT reading
- ASCII graphics writing
- HP LaserJet format writing
- GraphOn graphics writing
- BBN BitGraph graphics writing
- Printronix format writing
-
- See PPM and PGM for more X Windows conversion help.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms:
- X11. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- PBMPLUS
- can convert between a lot of image formats. By Jef
- Poskanzer. The new name for this tool is netpbm. You can
- convert images to PostScript and back.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: free Platforms: C
- Get-From:
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/graphics/graphics/packages/NetPBM
- or ftp.cs.ubc.ca:/ftp/archive/netpbm
-
-
- pc2ps
- handles IBM code page 437 line graphic symbols.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: Free
- Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: SIMTEL archives, or
- email giersig@ekpds1.tuwien.ac.at.
-
-
- enscript
- formats text in 1 or 2 columns, portrait or landscape,
- manual paper feed, headers, line printer simulation, line
- wrap or truncation, control lines on page, fonts.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free
- Platforms: UNIX, DOS, OS/2. Get-From:
- comp.sources.postscript, volume 3
-
-
- PdB
- version 2.1 is an ANSI-C to PostScript optimizing
- compiler that allows you to write PostScript programs in
- C.
-
- There is no more need to write PostScript! Start using
- PdB right now! PdB is an optimizing compiler to compile
- ANSI-C (like) code into Adobe compatible PostScript. The
- release of version 2.1 includes:
-
- Binaries for Sun SPARC station and IBM RS6000; Include
- files for Abobe PostScript level; Include files for NeWS
- upto version 3.1.; Include files for TNT upto version
- 3.1.; Support for CPS OpenWindows upto version 3.1.;
- Support NeWS classing in a C++ manner; Plenty of examples
- of all the above functions.; NeWS/OpenWindows test
- suite.; PostScript reference manual.; UNIX manual pages.
-
-
- What: Converts-C-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: ANSI-C. Get-From:
- turing.com:pub/pdb2.1-demo.tar.Z.
-
-
- PGM utilities
- in the X11R4 and X11R5 distributions can convert between
- many image formats. They handle:
-
-
- TIFF reading
- Usenix FaceSaver file reading
- HIPS reading
- FITS reading writing
- PostScript ``image'' data reading
- raw grayscale bytes reading
- Encapsulated PostScript writing
-
- See PBM and PPM for more X Windows conversion help.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms:
- X11. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- portrait.ps
- prints pages of 80 characters by 60 lines in portrait
- mode in 11 point Courier. Just prepend to an ASCII file
- and send it to the printer.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript,
- Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose
- body consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_
- POSTSCRIPT'' to FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
- (or, if you're on ESnet/NSInet, to
- SOL1::FILESERV).
-
-
- Post
- handles control margins, fonts, orientation, scaling This
- is not the same as Post for the Amiga.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status:
- shareware ( $ 5). Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: F.
- C. Betts, Veda Incorporated, Suite 200, 5200
- Springfield Pike, Dayton, OH 45431, U.S.A.
-
-
- POSTPRN
- is a device driver that prints portrait and landscape,
- and 1-up, 2-up, and 4-up pages. Automatically converts
- ASCII to PostScript simply by opening the device and
- writing to it.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From:
- grape.ecs.clarkson.edu:/d/dosutil/postprn.zip
- (315)268-6667 (1N8, 12/2400), file area 7,
- postprn.zip.
-
-
- PostScript Processing Speed Test version 3.1
- measures the speed of your PostScript device. By
- Jean-Serge Gagnon.
-
-
- What: Device-Utility. Status: free. Platforms:
- ???. Get-From: GAAJ.UOTTAWA.CA (132.122.6.203).
-
-
- The PostScript Zone
- lets you pretend your PostScript programming space is
- three dimensional. This package is a set of headers that
- you can add to your files to make them know how to draw
- in three dimensions. By Jonathan Monsarrat
- (jgm@cs.brown.edu).
-
- The page, of course, is a perspective two-dimensional
- projection of this three-dimensional drawing space. You
- can adjust this projection, rotate your three-dimensional
- coordinate system, translate, and so on.
-
- You can convert any 2D PostScript image into 3-space,
- warping it over any arbitrary transformation or over a
- surface.
-
- The Zone is written entirely in PostScript level 1 and
- runs on any PostScript device.
-
- The Zone comes with a C program that lets you
- interactively build a 3D image and rotate it with simple
- keystrokes.
-
- The PostScript Zone also has examples of arbitrary
- non-affine transformations and conformal mapping.
-
-
- What: 3D, Warps, Conformal-Mapping,
- Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/zone.tar.Z.
-
-
- postscript.el
- is an emacs mode for PostScript programming. There's a
- much better version of Chris Maio's -- it's definitely
- worth replacing your September 1988 version with the
- 11/22/90 patch by John Relph.
-
-
- What: Programmer-Utility, elisp. Status: free.
- Platforms: Emacs. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/postscript.el.
-
-
- pps
- is designed to be extended into further tools. It
- consists of a front-end that converts the file into
- generic PostScript. You tack a header onto it that
- defines the behavior of tabs, font changes, newlines,
- formfeeds, and so on.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: alt.sources and
- comp.lang.postscript article
- (1992May13.013042.23844@NeoSoft.com), posted 13
- May 1992.
-
-
- psformat.shar
- is a PostScript code beautifier.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-PostScript. Status:
- free. Platforms: ???. Get-From: The Adobe file
- server, ftp.adobe.com.
-
-
- pstoepsi
- converts arbitrary PostScript to Encapsulated PostScript
- with an optional preview Image using either a UNIX based
- or PC based (TIFF) preview format. This means it can
- generate EPS, EPSI, and EPSF. By Doug Crabill
- (dgc@cs.purdue.edu).
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-EPS,
- Converts-PostScript-to-EPSI. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX, need PBMPLUS and either
- GhostScript or OpenWindows (version 2 or 3).
- Get-From:
- ftp.cs.purdue.edu:pub/dgc/pstoepsi-1.2.shar.Z
-
-
- pstohtml
- is a UNIX script that converts PostScript to HTML format.
- You need Ghostscript to use it.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-HTML Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX with Ghostscript Get-From:
- comp.sources.postscript archives, volume 3,
- ftp.sterling.com in
- /usenet/comp.sources.postscript/
-
-
- PPM
- utilities in the X11R4 and X11R5 distributions can
- convert between many image formats. They handle:
-
-
- color Sun raster file reading writing
- GIF reading writing
- Amiga IFF ILBM reading writing
- color X11 window dump file reading writing
- color X10 window dump file reading
- MTV ray-tracer output reading
- QRT ray-tracer output reading
- TrueVision Targa file reading
- Img-whatnot file reading
- color Encapsulated PostScript writing
-
- See PBM and PGM for more X Window System conversion help.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms:
- X11. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- printer
- uses Monofont (Courier); monosize (12 pitch). With other
- devps programs, it supports portrait and landscape
- printing, manual feed, reverse page order printing,
- message and other overlays, control-L (form feed) page
- eject.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status:
- commercial. Platforms: UNIX, MS-DOS. Get-From:
- Part of Pipeline Associates' devps package.
-
-
- ps2a.sh
- Converts PostScript to ASCII on a Sun by sending the PS
- into psh or Ghostscript. The ASCII is spat back out on
- stdout. It does a reasonable job since it uses positional
- information to determine word breaks. The greatest
- weakness is that it does not understand fonts.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au:/pub/comp/src/ps2a.sh or
- iamsun.unibe.ch:PostScript/ps2a.sh.
-
-
- ps2ascii
- The output from this gives a rough ascii version of the
- postscript document. Requires a PostScript interpreter
- (such as Ghostscript) and perl. Written by Steven Dick
- (ssd@engr.ucf.edu).
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- apocalypse.engr.ucf.edu:/usr/ssd/ps2ascii.shar.
-
-
- ps2ascii.pl
- prints all the words of a PostScript program.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX (any Perl platform). Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/ps2ascii.pl.
-
-
- ps2ascii.ps
- prints all the words of a PostScript program as well as
- the (X,Y) positions. You can use the (X,Y) positions to
- retain the format of your document, as well as just the
- strings.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII,
- Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/ps2ascii.ps.
-
-
- ps2eps-11
- is a UNIX program that lets you convert an EPS file into
- EPSF. It uses GhostScript and PBMPLUS. It creates a
- macbinary file which can be transferred to the Mac using
- macbinary option. It can use almost any PS including that
- from some other Mac application after cleaning with
- macps.
-
-
- What: Converts-EPS-to-EPSF. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- sumex-aim.stanford.edu:info-mac/unix/ps2eps-11.shar.
-
-
- ps2pk
- is astandalone C program which rasterizes a PostScript
- font into TeX's PK format.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-TeX. Status: free.
- Platforms: ???. Get-From: ftp.urc.tue.nl,
- ipc1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de:/pub/tex/utilities/ps2pk,
- rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de:/.serv2/soft/tex/utilities/ps2pk,
- miki.cs.titech.ac.jp:/pub/text/TeX/misc/ps2pk,
- src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/tex/fonts/utilities/ps2pk.
-
-
- ps2txt
- is by Iqbal Qazi.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: ???.
- Platforms: ???. Get-From: ftp.funet.fi in
- /pub/archive/alt.sources/volume92/Feb/920223.01.gz.
-
-
- ps2a.sh
- is a UNIX shellscript that redefines the show and related
- operators in the manner you suggest, and decides when
- kerning is taking place. By Leonard Hamey.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: ftp.mpce.mq.edu.au.
-
-
- psbook
- can rearrange pages in a PostScript file into
- ``signatures''. This is useful for printing books or
- booklets.
-
- From the psutils collection by Angus Duggan.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From: See the psutils entry.
-
-
- psbox
- allows ps files to be included in TeX documents, and
- allows ps figures to to resized as required.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-TeX Status: free.
- Platforms: TeX Get-From:
- cs.nyu.eduu:pub/tex/psbox
-
-
- psf
- can do 2-up, 4-up, landscape, portrait, control fonts and
- sizes, double-sided printing, scaling, banner page.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX, Xenix, MS-DOS. Get-From:
- comp.sources.misc volume 12 issues 104-109,
- archive name psf2. Or ftp to
- fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca:pub/psf/psf3.5.tar.Z
-
-
- PsFrag,
- by Craig Barratt, is a set of LaTeX macros for overlaying
- postscript figures with fragments of LaTeX. More
- precisely, the PsFrag macros allow specific pieces of
- postscript text in a postscript figure (included via\
- epsfbox or\special) to be replaced with arbitrary
- fragments of LaTeX. When your document is latex'ed and
- dvips'ed, each piece of postscript text is replaced by
- the LaTeX text.
-
- The postscript file might be produced, for example, by
- xfig, idraw, matlab, xmath, etc. Each string displayed by
- postscript's show operator is a candidate for replacement
- by LaTeX text, math symbols, equations, pictures etc. For
- example, you can include a matlab plot in a LaTeX
- document with the title, axis labels, and legend
- generated by LaTeX.
-
- The LaTeX fragments can be optionally rotated, scaled,
- and repositioned relative to the text being replaced. The
- LaTeX fragments automatically track the postscript text
- position as the postscript file is modified, or as the
- scaling and offsets of the\special or\epsfbox are
- changed.
-
- You need GhostScript and dvips from Radical Eye Software
- to use the program.
-
-
- What: Converts-TeX-to-PostScript,
- Converts-LaTeX-to-PostScript, Text-Formatter,
- Converts-PostScript-to-TeX,
- Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- isl.stanford.edu:pub/boyd/psfrag/psfrag.tar.Z.
-
-
- psfig
- allows you to include PostScript easily in your LaTeX or
- TeX or ditroff documents. By Trevor Darrell.
-
-
- What: Text-Formatter, Converts-PostScript-to-TeX,
- Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX,
- Converts-PostScript-to-Troff. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: ftp.uu.net
- /usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume11/psfig or
- csc-sun.math.utah.edu:/pub/tex/pub/psfig
-
-
- psnup
- puts many PostScript pages on one page.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms:
- ???. Get-From: Part of psutils. .
-
-
- PSR
- is a simple C program that compiles under DOS and Unix
- that converts NROFF output (namely ASCII with overstrikes
- and backspaces) into Postscript.
-
-
- What: ???. Status: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript.
- Platforms: C Get-From:
- biome.bio.ns.ca:/pub/postscript/psr.c
-
-
- psroff3.0
- contains programs that can convert TeX PK format or HP
- SFP format fonts into PostScript bitmap fonts. While
- bitmap fonts scale poorly, this is sometimes of use in
- special circumstances. By Chris Lewis.
-
-
- What: Converts-PK-to-PostScript,
- Converts-SFP-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX, for psxlate and asc2ps also VMS.
- Get-From: ftp.uunet.ca in distrib/chris_
- lewis/psroff3.0.
-
-
- psselect
- lets you select pages and ranges of pages to be printed
- from among all the pages of a big document. It selects
- individual pages, page ranges, or odd or even pages from
- a DSC compliant file. PSselect can also reverse the order
- of pages in a DSC compliant files.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From: See the psutils entry.
-
-
- pstext
- handles tabs and backspaces, prints two-up, landscape or
- portrait.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: email to
- jgm@cs.brown.edu .
-
-
- pstops
- rearranges the pages in a PostScript file.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: ???. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From: See the psutils entry.
-
-
- PSTricks
- v0.93 is an extensive collection of PostScript macros
- that is compatible with most TeX macro packages,
- including Plain TeX , LaTeX AmSTeX and AmS-LaTeX.
- Included are macros for color, graphics, rotation, trees
- and overlays. It has several special features:
-
-
-
- * There is a wide variety of graphics (picture drawing)
- macros, with a flexible interface and with color
- support. All lines and outlines can be solid, dotted
- or dashed. Lines and curves can have arrowheads,
- t-bars, brackets or circles on the ends. Regions can
- be filled with solid colors, lines or crosshatch. By
- Timothy Van Zandt
-
-
- * There is support for polar and cartesian coordinate
- systems.
-
-
- * There are macros for plots and axes.
-
-
- * Nested rotations can be made with respect to the
- physical page.
-
-
- * There are flexible node macros, useful for trees,
- mathematical diagrams, and linking information of any
- kind.
-
-
- * There is a powerful loop macro that is useful for
- making pictures.
-
-
- * There are macros for coloring or shading the cells of
- tables.
-
-
- What: Text-Formatter, Converts-PostScript-to-TeX,
- Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- princeton.edu:pub/tvz/pstricks.tar.Z.
-
-
- * [ PSxlate ] is part of psroff3.0, and is available from
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering, Device-Utility. Status:
- free. Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- comp.sources.unix archives, or ftp.uunet.ca in
- /distrib/chris_lewis/psroff3.0/part??.Z.
-
-
- * [ psutils ] is a set of useful PostScript utilities:
- epsffit, getafm, psbook, psnup, psselect, pstops, and
- showchar. By Angus Duggan
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript,
- Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX.
- Get-From:
- ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk:pub/ajcd/psutils.tar.Z.
-
-
- * [ SerialOff.PS ] works with SerialEHandler.ps to
- communicate bidirectionally to the printer. Works on
- PostScript 2 printers only.
-
-
- What: Device-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: .
- Get-From: wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript.
-
-
- * [ showchar ] outputs PostScript to draw a character with
- metric information.
-
-
- What: Font-Utility. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From: See the psutils entry.
-
-
- * [ spike.ps ] prints out an ASCII file in PostScript. Just
- prepend to an ASCII file and send it to the printer. You
- can play with the margins, font, etc. easily. By John
- Hughes.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status:
- PostScript. Platforms: Written-in-PostScript.
- Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/spike.ps.
-
-
- * [ StripFonts ] strips out font definitions from a
- PostScript file intended to be printed on a printer which
- already knows the fonts.
-
-
- What: Font-Utility. Status: free. Platforms:
- Macintosh. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- * [ swtext ] started off as a clone of Adobe's
- ``enscript'', but is now greatly enhanced, and has large
- numbers of columns, ``document'' mode with paragraph
- fills and *bold* and_italic _ printing (controlled by
- *...* and_... _ respectively), more control over page
- layout....
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status:
- commercial. Platforms: ???. Get-From: Harlequin
- Ltd, Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambridge,
- CAMBS, United Kingdom.
- scriptworks-request@harlqn.co.uk.
-
-
- * [ Tailor ] can edit PostScript documents.
-
-
- What: Edit-PostScript Status: Commercial
- Platforms: NEXTSTEP (3.1 or higher). Get-From:
- FirstClass NV, Peter Camps, Avennesdreef 32,
- B-9031 Drongen, BELGIUM, +32 9 227 62 48 voice,
- +32 9 227 15 89 fax, info@firstclass.be
-
-
- * [ t1utils ] can convert PFB to PFA. By Lee Hetherington.
-
-
- What: Converts-PFB-to-PFA, Converts-PFA-to-PFB.
- Status: free. Platforms: ???. Get-From:
- ftp.cs.umb.edu (192.12.26.23):
- /pub/misc/t1utils-1.1.tar.Z.
-
-
- * [ text2ps ] allows arbitrary rotation, control body font,
- body font size, horizontal spacing, leading, left margin
- on even and odd pages, top margin, fold long lines
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: ???.
- Platforms: DOS, UNIX?. Get-From:
- comp.binaries.ibm.pc, volume 1, archive name
- text2ps.
-
-
- * [ TOPS ] is a very simple text to ps filter. Quite fast.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: Ian Farquhar
- (ifarqhar@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz.au).
-
-
- * [ Trimmer ] strips out font definitions from a PostScript
- file intended to be printed on a printer which already
- knows the fonts.
-
-
- What: Font-Utility. Status: Shareware. Platforms:
- Macintosh. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- * [ unps ]
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free.
- Platforms: POSIX, UNIX with nawk. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/unps.
-
-
- * [ up ] is a Perl hack to convert ps files to n-up
- (conforming output from conforming input, so you can pass
- it through again...), where n is whatever you want it to
- be, based on a configuration file. It also includes
- page-reordering for book-making.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms:
- Perl. Get-From: comp.sources.misc late in '89
- (volume 8).
-
-
- * [ wide.ps ] prints pages of 132 characters by 103 lines
- in portrait mode in 6 point Courier. Just prepend to an
- ASCII file and send it to the printer. By Carl Lydick.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript,
- Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose
- body consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_
- POSTSCRIPT'' to FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
- (or, if you're on ESnet/NSInet, to
- SOL1::FILESERV).
-
-
- * [ wmap2ps ] converts map files (MP1 format) from John B.
- Allison's 'The World Digitized' package to EPSF 2.0
- conforming PostScript files. The latitude is usually
- projected using the mercator projection and the resulting
- figure may be scaled and positioned to the needs of the
- user.
-
-
- What: Converts-MP1-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: PostScript. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/wmap2ps.shar.
-
-
- * [ xpr ] is converts the bitmap from any X Window System
- file to PostScript.
-
- To convert an image to PostScript in X Window System, you
- can display the image on the screen and then use ``xpr
- -device ps'' in the resulting X11 window. For example, to
- convert GIF to PostScript, use xv or xshowgif (ftp from
- bongo.cc.utexas.edu (128.83.186.13)) and then xpr.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms:
- X11. Get-From: ???.
-
-