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- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS);faqs.445
-
-
-
- Let's put PostScript Level 2 in perspective with respect to the
- overall printing solution. The effectiveness and performance of any
- particular printing solution is affected by four main elements:
-
-
-
- * Driver: Each major system software environment (Macintosh,
- Windows, OS/2 Presentation Manager, NeXT) has a built-in
- PostScript language driver. These system level drivers ensure
- that all applications running in the environment can output to
- PostScript printers. These drivers do not always produce the most
- efficient PostScript language programs, and may not support the
- wide variety of features available in the language or specific
- hardware features in a PostScript printer.
-
-
- * Language: The PostScript language as defined in the PostScript
- Language Reference Manual (the ``red book'') is the standard
- today.
-
-
- * Communications: AppleTalk, parallel, and serial communications
- are the most commonly used interfaces with PostScript printers
- today.
-
-
- * Controller: Today, most Adobe PostScript printers are based on a
- variety of controllers: Scout (68000), Atlas (68020), and Atlas
- Plus (68030). In addition, there are a number of custom
- controller solutions offered by our OEMs. Total system throughput
- is a function of all four elements. An efficient driver can
- produce PostScript page descriptions that print much faster;
- speed increases of 2-3x over an inefficient driver are not
- uncommon. Communications bottlenecks can account for a majority
- of the time it takes to print a page; a very large scanned image
- can take minutes to transmit to the printer, even using
- AppleTalk. And of course, the speed of the controller itself has
- a direct impact on the time it can take to print a page. However,
- the limiting factor
-
- PostScript Level 2 is one component of a total systems solution
- being assembled by Adobe:
-
-
-
- * Adobe is developing drivers for the Macintosh, Windows 3.0, and
- OS/2 Presentation Manager environments. These drivers will take
- full advantage of the features and performance enhancements in
- PostScript Level 2 printers as well as existing PostScript
- printers.
-
-
- * PostScript Level 2 extends the PostScript language with new
- operators to improve performance and provide additional
- functionality to address the need of end users and ISVs.
-
-
- * PostScript Level 2 includes a variety of file compression
- techniques that can be used to reduce the amount of information
- sent (and hence the time to do so) to the PostScript printer.
-
-
- * Adobe is developing new controllers based on the latest RISC
- technology which are up to 22 times faster than current
- controllers. In addition, these controllers provide our OEMs the
- potential for providing direct SCSI input and Ethernet
- connections for increased throughput.
-
- (C) 1990 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.
- PostScript, Display PostScript, and Adobe are trademarks of Adobe
- Systems Incorporated registered in the U.S. All other product names
- are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
- holders.
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- From: jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,news.answers
- Subject: PostScript monthly FAQ v2.01 11-30-92 [12 of 12]
- Summary: Useful facts about the PostScript graphics programming language
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- -- PostScript --
-
- Answers to Questions
-
- (the comp.lang.postscript FAQ v2.01)
-
- Jon Monsarrat
-
- jgm@cs.brown.edu
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-
-
-
-
- This FAQ is formatted as a digest.
-
- Most news readers can skip from one question
-
- to the next by pressing control-G.
-
-
- Changes since the last version are marked with a '|' in the table
- of contents and in the sections in the text-only format of the FAQ.
-
- Please help fix the FAQ! All comments should be mailed to
- jgm@cs.brown.edu. My favorite way to receive a change suggestion is
- when it is accompanied by a section of the FAQ that is edited and
- mailed to me verbatim as an example. If you would like to
- contribute, please read the section ``about the FAQ'' first. Thank
- you!
-
- Books and programs are referred to by name only. See the
- appropriate sections for full information.
-
- Subject: 12 PostScript Interpreters and Utilities
-
- 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, ``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.
-
-
- Subject: 12.1 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 128.6.18.15 (Rutgers University)
- archie.unl.edu 129.93.1.14 (University of Nebraska in Lincoln)
- archie.sura.net 128.167.254.179 (SURAnet archie server)
- archie.ans.net 147.225.1.2 (ANS archie server)
- archie.au 139.130.4.6 (Australian server)
- archie.funet.fi 128.214.6.100 (European server in Finland)
- archie.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.11.3 (UK/England server)
- archie.cs.huji.ac.il 132.65.6.15 (Israel server)
- archie.wide.ad.jp 133.4.3.6 (Japanese server)
-
- If you don't have telnet, send email to archie at any of the above
- sites with the subject ``help''.
-
-
- Subject: 12.2 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.
-
-
- Subject: 12.3 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, ``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.
-
- Subject: 12.4 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.
-
- Canvas 3.0
- ???
-
- What: Previewer
- Status: commercial (more than $ 50)
- Platforms: Macintosh
- Get-From: ???
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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, 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
- 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
- ???
-
- What: Interpreter, Converts-???
- Status: ???
- Platforms: ???
- Get-From: ???
-
- JAWS
- ???
-
- What: Interpreter
- Status: Commercial
- Platforms: Sun
- Get-From ???
- Where to get it: uad1077@dircon.co.uk
-
- NeXTStep,
- release 3.0 supports full level 2 PostScript.
-
- What: Interpreter
- Status: commercial
- Platforms:
- | NeXT
- Get-From:
- | 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 (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, ``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
- is a PostScript previewer for level 1 PostScript only.
-
- UltraScript 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.
-
- Subject: 12.5 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
- 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.
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript
- Status: free
- Platforms: UNIX, MS-DOS
- Get-From: comp.sources.misc volume 10, issue 73, archive name a2ps3,
- posted 17 February 1990. Modified version posted to
- alt.sources 25 March 1990 by Tor Lillqvist
- (tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi). Updated version available by
- anonymous ftp from imag.fr (129.88.32.1) in the "archive"
- directory.
-
- 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,
- | cs.dal.ca:/pub/comp.archives,
- | 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: email to jgm@cs.brown.edu
-
- 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.
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- 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).
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- dvips
- ???
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- What: Converts-DVI-to-PostScript
- Status: ???
- Platforms: UNIX
- Get-From: Radical Eye Software.
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- DWB 3
- ???
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- What: ???
- Status: ???
- Platforms: ???
- Get-From: ???
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- 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.
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- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript
- Status: commercial
- Platforms: UNIX
- Get-From: Adobe Systems
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- epsffit
- fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box.
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- What: Bounding-Box
- Status: free
- Platforms: UNIX
- Get-From: See the psutils entry.
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- epsinfo.ps
- determines bounding boxes. This can help to turn a PS file into
- an EPS file.
-
- What: Bounding-Box
- Status: ???
- Platforms: PostScript
- Get-From: from the Adobe file server (see Section 6,
- ``About Adobe'') or stis.nsf.gov:/NSF/eps/epsinfo.ps
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- epsonps
- Epson LX-800 to PostScript translator, supports international
- character sets, IBM graphics characters, different width fonts,
- bit-mapped graphics.
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- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript
- Status: free
- Platforms: MS-DOS
- Get-From: comp.sources.misc
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