SUMMARY - Text to PS Converter

From: Jason Mclean (jasonm@woody.apana.org.au)
Date: Wed Oct 12 1994 - 09:50:20 CDT


Thanks to those for all the replies.
I will now have to go through the list a try a couple to see if they meet
the requirements that I am looking for. Below is a list of those who
replied and their choices.

Thanks Again
Jason Mclean

szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
        - his own converter
dpc@metagen.co.uk ( The Terminator )
        - c code to do this
gcp@lnsp00.com (Garry Perratt)
        - Newsprint includes one
        - "pl" (PreLimn)
heasley@merl.com
        - ghostscript/ghostview (find it with archie)
Jeff Collyer <jeff@bundy.cnet-pnw.com>
        - a2ps
Torsten Metzner <tom@uni-paderborn.de>
        - a2ps and nenscript.
jonh@hitl.washington.edu
        - Try mpage
Salvatore Saieva <merccap!clark!saieva@uunet.uu.net>
        - psf might do it.
Rodney Campbell <rodney@nssyd.tansu.com.au> -
        ftp://ftp.tansu.com.au/archive/local/a2ps.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.tansu.com.au/archive/local/mp-3.1.2.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.tansu.com.au/archive/local/pps.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.tansu.com.au/archive/local/psutils.tar.gz
Dan Stromberg - OAC-DCS <strombrg@bingy.acs.uci.edu>
        - a2ps is pretty good.
lccha@atlas.nb.rockwell.com
        - I use psf which I ftp'd from fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Pat Max <pam@fimad1.lanl.gov>
        - I use enscript, which is part of the transcript package from Adobe.
ruupoe@thijssen.nl (Ruud van Poelgeest)
        - I know NewsPrint does a lot of that stuff, but it's not for free.
rwolf@dciem.dnd.ca (Robert Wolf)
        - there is a very good package called 'psf'.
               Contact the author for the latest information
                Tony Field: tony@ajfcal.cuc.ab.ca

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