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Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!staff.cc.purdue.edu!ab From: Allen Braunsdorf <postscript-faq@cc.purdue.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sources.postscript,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: v04INF1: PostScript Sources monthly FAQ v1.13 04-30-95 [2 of 3] Followup-To: poster Date: 30 Apr 1995 19:42:56 GMT Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 2055 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Distribution: world Expires: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <3o0p80$4k4@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: postscript-faq@cc.purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) NNTP-Posting-Host: staff.cc.purdue.edu Summary: Useful facts about the PostScript Sources newsgroup Archive-name: postscript/programs Last-modified: 1995/04/30 Version: 1.13 Originator: ab@staff.cc.purdue.edu Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.sources.postscript:312 comp.answers:11529 news.answers:43033 -- 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: ???.