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Description:text to postscript
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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
 
archive contents:

drwxrwxr-x  0 jwall    techies 	         Jan 28 10:06 pstext
-rw-rw-r--  0 jwall    techies 	     271 Jan 10 15:29 pstext/Makefile
-rw-rw-r--  0 jwall    techies 	    2389 Nov 26 14:30 pstext/Readme
-rw-rw-r--  0 jwall    techies 	     291 Jan 10 15:25 pstext/makelog
-rwxrwxr-x  0 jwall    techies 	   29031 Dec 15 16:16 pstext/pstext
-rw-rw-r--  0 jwall    techies 	    6070 Nov 26 14:30 pstext/pstext.1
-rw-rw-r--  0 jwall    techies 	   17913 Jan 10 15:25 pstext/pstext.c
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