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- From: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: previewer for hp dwb?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.172515.18613@eye.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 21:25:14 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: 3D/EYE, Inc. Ithaca, NY
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- Hi-
-
- Many moons ago, we bought a license for the HP-ized DWB (ditroff). It's the
- same version that's still being used to do man pages, etc. inside hp, I
- believe. The output mechanism runs something like:
- troff source --> troff --> dvi format --> pif format --> pcl --> printer.
-
- It's been a workhorse for us for years, and will continue to be, I'm sure, but
- the one thing that's always been missing is a decent X11 previewer. We've got
- an _old_ binary of xproof that works with it, but it does not use the X11 fonts
- for display. Has it's own set of very cruddy fonts. I've had little luck
- building a newer version of xproof or xtroff that recognizes the font format
- used by the hp DWB. Anybody have a working previewer, or better yet, some
- tips for hacking on xtroff to get it to recognize the font description info
- used in the devPIF font collection?
-
- Thanks in advance!
- --
- Paul B. Booth (paul@eye.com)
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