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- | eps2epsi
- | does a conversion if you have GhostScript and Perl.
- |
- | What: Converts-EPS-to-EPSI
- | Status: free
- | Platforms: Perl
- | Get-From: email to jgm@cs.brown.edu
-
- 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.
-
- 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: C++
- Get-From: prep.ai.mit.edu
-
- | gs2asc
- | converts PostScript to ASCII, retaining the format of the text.
- |
- | What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII
- | Status: free
- | Platforms: GhostScript
- | Get-From: jgm@cs.brown.edu
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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).
-
- 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, ``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.
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript
- Status: free, shareware
- Platforms: UNIX, VMS, TOPS-20
- Get-From: Old version for TOPS-20 and VMS freely redistributable
- for noncommercial use. Latest version (3.2) for UNIX is
- shareware ($8 single-user, $12 multi-user). By Fredric Ihren
- (fred@nada.kth.se). Send cash (no checks) to Vickervagen 4,
- S-178 35 Ekero, Sweden.
-
- | lprps
- | is a print spooler.
- |
- | What: Device-Utility
- | Status: free
- | Platforms: ???
- | Get-From: James Clark (jjc@jclark.com)
-
- 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: comp.sources.unix volume 15 issue 8, 25 May 1988,
- archive name lwf (obsolete version with minor bugs). An
- updated version can be ftp'ed from cs.ubc.ca (137.82.8.5)
- as pub/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
-
- 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.
-
- 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/uploads/nensc113.zip.
-
- 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).
-
- 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 Poskranzer.
-
- What: Converts-Images
- Status: ???
- Platforms: ???
- Get-From: export.lcs.mit.edu as /contrib/pbmplus*.tar.Z
-
- pc2ps
- handles IBM code page 437 line graphic symbols.
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript
- Status: ???
- Platforms: MS-DOS
- Get-From: GIERSIG@EDVZ.ATI.ADA.AT (Roland Giersig)
-
- 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: email jgm@cs.brown.edu
-
- 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.
-
- 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 Windows 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
- ???
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII
- Status: ???
- Platforms: ???
- Get-From: ???
-
- ps2ascii
- ???
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII
- Status: ???
- Platforms: ???
- Get-From: ???
-
- ps2ascii.pl
- prints all the words of a PostScript program.
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII
- Status: free
- Platforms: UNIX (any Perl platform)
- Get-From: Get from Jon Monsarrat. jgm@cs.brown.edu
-
- 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: Jon Monsarrat. jgm@cs.brown.edu
-
- 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: 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: reseq.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de in
- /informatik.public/news/alt.sources/ps2txt, keos.helsinki.fi
- in /pub/archives/alt.sources/ps2txt
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- | 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: comp.sources.unix
-
- psfx80
- features Epson FX80 emulation with some limitations
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript
- Status: commercial
- Platforms: Sun 386i (UNIX MS-DOS capable machine)
- Get-From: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
-
- psnup
- puts many PostScript pages on one page.
-
- What: Page-Reordering
- Status: free
- Platforms: ???
- Get-From: Part of psutils.
-
- PSR
- is a DOS version of the UNIX program.
-
- What: ???
- Status: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript
- Platforms: MS-DOS
- Get-From: Bill Silvert (silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca)
-
- 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.
-
- 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
- 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/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 (129.215.160.5) in the file
- 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: Jon Monsarrat (jgm@cs.brown.edu).
-
- 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: Jon Monsarrat (jgm@cs.brown.edu).
-
- 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
-
- t1utils
- can convert PFB to PFA. By Lee Hetherington.
-
- What: Converts-PFB-to-PFA
- 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.
-