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- This is the newest and best version of my pstext program I wrote
- a few years back. This version fixes several little bugs that were
- passed back from the net (THANKS to all who took the time), plus
- some additional features to make it more flexible and work better
- with more printers.
-
- This version should replace any and all copies of previous versions.
- No functionallity has been lost, only enhanced so any scripts you have
- that use the older version should still work with no changes.
-
- A brief description:
- This is yet another turn your postscript printer into a
- line printer kind of program. I wrote this because I wanted a
- plain text filter that would handle tabs and back spaces sanely,
- print 2 pages on 1, print lanscape or portrait, and no cutesy
- page headers. It has an option to print x lines per page for those
- of you who do not wish to figure out what size of Times-Roman (or
- whatever font you like) is needed to get 66 lines per page.
- It also allows you to vary the margins to what ever you desire
- for various printers and contains defaults for some standard printers.
- This program converts text into PostScript and will allow the user to
- specify as many conditions as I could think of, it also has reasonable
- defaults. That's all it does, if you want program that does everything
- including telling you how to vote use emacs :-)
-
- Good things about pstext:
- It is small, runs quickly, is easy to use and needs no weird library files.
- Pstext has been compiled and run successfully without any modifcation on
- HP's, Sun 3's, Sun 4's, Next's, Vax 11/780 running 4.3 BSD, compaq,
- Sequent, and a couple others I can't recall right now. It has been compiled
- on various DOS machines the only change needed is to use string.h instead
- of strings.h as an include file. The PostScript generated has been used
- regularly for at least 6 months with out any problem on Apple LaserWriterII NT,
- Apple LaserWriterII NTX, HP laserjet with PostScript cartriage, and the
- NeXT Laser printer. I have used it on several of the Color printers
- I have demo'ed along with various display PostScript on the screen packages
- like ghostscript, xps etc.
-
- Feel free to do what you want with this program, except sell it.
- If you find bugs or add neat features that are not specific to
- any particular laser printer send me mail.
-
- Dan Judd
- Grad Student Michigan State University
- 11/22/1991
- danjudd@cps.msu.edu
-