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From: garvin@ccvr1.uucp (Michael A. Garvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PostScript printing of IFF (was Re: VLT version 4.058)
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Date: 15 Aug 89 21:20:22 GMT
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In article <121633@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <20020@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>> [stuff about PostScript, Suns, and Ifftops making garbage deleted]
>>lpr 'file.ps'. What's wrong?
>
>I use a program that was written by William Mason and Sam Paolucci named
>IFF2PS. It is version 2.0. It allows you to generate encapsulated postscript
>as well as just a straight postscript file. After adjusting it to get full
>size printouts of various images I left those options in my configuration
>file and made them the defaults. The output file is on an NFS mounted file
>system that my workstation shares, so I just lpr the file to the printer
>down the hall and poof a hard copy of an IFF image. 
>
>It's available from Tom's BBS (415) 32-RADIO, and from kilowatt as iff2ps20.1
>
>
>--Chuck McManis
     I've been using a program called DPlaz that came over the net a while
ago.  It's still a sub-1.0 release, but it does work fairly nicely.  It is
based (as I recall) on the old PostScript generating program 'claz' (which
was a piece of junk, sorry) but has been re-written and is much improved.
The real win for it is that it uses "iff.library" to display boxes on a
page-sized box for each (of multiple) pictures.  You can move them on the
page, re-size them, rotate them, and even overlap images!  All this in a
nice user-interface where you can see your work and not guess about page
sizes, coordinates, etc.  It's definately worth a look.  I upload (soon to
be FTP) the PostScript output to a VAX, then lpr the file, where it then
goes through a GatorBox to a LaserWriter.

Michael Garvin
garvin@ccvr1.ncsu.edu
NCSU Computing Center, Raleigh, NC