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- From: milburn@vision.postech.ac.kr (John Milburn)
- Subject: Re: previewer for hp dwb?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.004246.21550@kum.kaist.ac.kr>
- Sender: usenet@kum.kaist.ac.kr (news)
- Reply-To: milburn@vision.postech.ac.kr (John Milburn)
- Organization: POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
- References: <1992Sep14.172515.18613@eye.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 00:42:46 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In the referenced article paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth) writes:
-
- >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.
- [...]
- >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?
-
- I realize it's not what you asked for, but you might consider using
- groff, the Gnu troff emulator. It builds without much trouble with HP's
- C++ compiler, and has a good X previewer. It also outputs dvi or
- postscript format.
-
- I have been using groff with dvilj2p to print, using TeX downloadable
- fonts. It works very well, is fast, and requires no font cartridge for
- high quality output. If you do have TeX (at least TeX fonts) installed,
- xdvi is a very good previewer.
-
- BTW, all of the above software is free.
-
- -jem
-