Hello Sun managers
>I interested how other managers are printing troff files on postscript laser
>printers.
>
>I know there is Newsprint, transcript, ptroff, ... from sun.
>How are people finding it? Is it any good? Any problems? How well does
>it work with Apple Laser printers.
>
>How about public domain alternatives? Archie is okay if I know the program
>name but I do not.
>
>I got a2ps but it only handles ascii files. We need to take troff files
>and convert them to postscript before printing.
>
>Any ideas would be helpful.
Newsprint is seems to be a good bug-free solution but the following
public domain alternatives were the most popular:
GNU's groff
Chris Lewis's psroff-3.0
pscat
cat2ps
thack
troff2ps
Almost half of the replies were in favour of GNU's groff. Plus everyone
says that it works great and better than Newsprint.
Special thanks to all the following people who replied:
jdavis@noao.edu
fetrow@biostat.washington.edu
bchivers@smiley.mitre.org
schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu
feigin@iis.ethz.ch
bin@primate.wisc.edu
mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au
cmacleod@uk.ac.dund.mcs
craigb@ips.oz.au
ben@vcd.vc.att.com
johnl@microware.com
@iti.org:scs@lokkur
milt@PE-Nelson.COM
bit!jayl@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu
hs@demeter.ukps.gwdg.de
blymn@awadi.com.AU
rowena!scg.boulder.co.us!pag@ncar.UCAR.EDU
peters@nms.otca.oz.au
hans@inmic.se
cogan@merlin.anu.edu.au
antonson@pebbles.Software.ORG
ramey@jello.csc.ti.com
issi!issi.com!vasey@cs.utexas.edu
tony@essex.ac.uk
hart@ml.csiro.au
todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca
uunet!merccap!alan
cal@soac.bellcore.com
daneel@Trantor.DSO.gov.SG
imd1707@ggr.co.uk
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leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com
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matt@wbst845e.xerox.com
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