Xref: utzoo comp.sources.d:2586 comp.sources.bugs:1195 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pcrat!rick From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: troff2lj problems Message-ID: <555@pcrat.UUCP> Date: 19 Aug 88 01:40:00 GMT References: <171@rocky8.rockefeller.edu> <169@fesk.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 45 In article <169@fesk.UUCP> sverre@fesk.UUCP (Sverre Froyen) writes: > >I will try to get ditroff2lj in a form suitable for posting to >comp.sources.misc. It may take a couple of weeks. This version is >not a modification of troff2lj, but rather a rewrite of the mod.sources >vol. 3 version mentioned above. Like the original version of troff2lj >it only works with font cartridges. It works quite well with the >K-cartridge and reasonable well with the Z-cartridge. I use it with >the K- and J-cartridges and use the J-cartridge for the CW fonts. We may have two ditroff to HP LJ Series II packages to choose from then. It appears, pending the completion of a port to BSD, that our package, "JetRoff"(tm) will find it's way to comp.sources.misc. JetRoff already runs under System V.2 and V.3. JetRoff will be posted as Shareware, so for the *really poor* folks out there you can get Sverre's program. But for a really complete version, you'll want to wait for JetRoff: - Includes R, I, B, H, HI, HB, HD, CW, S, SI, and ST fonts in sizes 4-40, stored in a compressed format. - Can use HP compatible Soft Fonts. - Downloads glyphs as needed - Supports all pic, eqn, tbl, and grap documents - Can include three different types of bitmaps in your documents via simple macro. Ability to add user defined types. - Text automatically flows around the bitmap (if you want to). - Can print in landscape or portrait orientations - Can print multiple logical pages per physical page - Can print 4 manual pages on front and back of legal paper - Automatic Adaptive Rasterization allows complex pic diagrams to print on the HP, where other commercial products just come up with the ERROR 21. - Has already been ported to the $#!&% 80286. JetRoff isn't a rewrite of anything. It was written from scratch with the goal being a complete implementation. I couldn't see paying $800 and up for software to support a lousy $1600 printer! Vix: would you pay *a reasonable amount* for Shareware? Net: Should I post now, and post BSD patches later? -- Rick Richardson, PC Research, Inc. (201) 542-3734 (voice, nights) OR (201) 389-8963 (voice, days) uunet!pcrat!rick (UUCP) rick%pcrat.uucp@uunet.uu.net (INTERNET)