Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:9450 comp.lang.postscript:1011 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philapd!ssp15!jos From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Troff to PostScript translators Keywords: troff postscript Message-ID: <556@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 27 Sep 88 07:44:07 GMT References: <346@illian.UUCP> Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands Lines: 20 In article <346@illian.UUCP> darylm@illian.UUCP (Daryl V. McDaniel) writes: >Recently several people have asked if there translators to go from troff >(ditroff) to PostScript. I know of several; I am sure that there are more. > >[... stuff deleted (all commercial available translators) ... ] >comp.sources.unix The USENET Archives That was TPSCRIPT (5 parts). We did compile it (System V) and use it with DWB 2.0 from AT&T. It works excellent and at this moment we don't need more: there is also a PostScript program to obtain a shell script (!) with font information back from the LaserWriter. In fact, we did not have *any* problems with tpscript - only with the DWB software itself :-) -- -- ###### Jos Vos ###### Internet jos@idca.tds.philips.nl ###### -- ###### ###### UUCP ...!mcvax!philapd!jos ######