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- -- PostScript Sources --
-
- Introduction to comp.sources.postscript
-
- (the comp.sources.postscript FAQ v1.11)
-
- Jonathan Monsarrat
-
- postscript-request@cs.brown.edu
-
-
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- To contribute sources, read the section ``Submitting Sources''.
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- me at postscript-request@cs.brown.edu.
-
- Related FAQs: comp.lang.postscript, comp.sources.misc, comp.text,
- comp.text.tex, comp.fonts, comp.graphics.
-
- The comp.sources.postscript archives are available by ftp to
- ftp.sterling.com in /usenet/comp.sources.postscript/ or
- ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de in /usenet/comp.sources.postscript. There is an
- index in the last section of this FAQ.
-
- This FAQ and the indexes are available by anonymous ftp to
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/comp.sources.postscript. You can get the
- comp.lang.postscript FAQ by anonymous ftp to
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/comp.lang.postscript. Both come in ASCII,
- LaTeX, DVI, and PostScript formats.
-
- Subject: 5 PostScript Interpreters and Utilities
-
- This section lists all the large PostScript programs that I know
- of, both commercial and for free. These programs have largely not
- been posted to comp.sources.postscript, but there are references
- about where to get all programs.
-
- I would like very much to be able to recommend some of these
- programs over others. Unfortunately, I have very little information
- about most of them. Please send information or additions! Programs
- without significant information will be dropped shortly.
-
- Included in this index are a number of ASCII to PostScript
- conversion programs. These are quick and dirty programs, and it is
- unclear why having so many of them is interesting, so many will
- probably be deleted (send mail about the ones you like most). If
- you really want to convert ASCII to PostScript in a high quality
- way, what you want is a real text formatter. (See the FAQ for
- comp.text and comp.text.tex)
-
- If you have a program, please let me know. Section 10, ``About the
- FAQ'' has some hints on what I'm hoping to get when I get a program
- description.
-
- I am grateful to Howard Gayle (howard@hal.com) for a large portion
- of the below information.
-
- Now that there is Linux, IBM PC (and clone) users can run any of
- the X-windows and UNIX programs in the utilities section.
-
-
- Subject: 5.1 How can I find a program?
-
- To find a program, try using an ``archie'' server. Archie will
- figure out which FTP sites have the program that you are looking
- for. Please try archie before asking people for the program.
-
- I would be happy to answer questions about where to get programs.
- Just send me email. If you find a good ftp site for these programs,
- please let me know.
-
- To use archie, just type ``archie'' or ``xarchie''. If you don't
- have that program, then you can telnet to one of the following
- addresses and type ``archie'' as the username. To get help type
- ``help''.
-
-
- archie.rutgers.edu (Rutgers University)
- archie.unl.edu (University of Nebraska in Lincoln)
- archie.sura.net (SURAnet archie server)
- archie.ans.net (ANS archie server)
- archie.au (Australian server)
- archie.funet.fi (European server in Finland)
- archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (UK/England server)
- archie.cs.huji.ac.il (Israel server)
- archie.wide.ad.jp (Japanese server)
-
- If you don't have telnet, send email to archie at any of the above
- sites with the subject ``help''.
-
-
- Subject: 5.2 How can I browse through PostScript programs?
-
- To find ftp sites that carry PostScript programs, try ``archie
- postscript''. Then use ftp to look through them.
-
-
- Subject: 5.3 Keywords
-
-
-
- What:
-
-
-
- Bounding-Box
- Determines the bounding box of a PostScript program (so it can
- be converted to EPSF for example).
-
-
- Converts
- The program converts back and forth between formats such as:
- ASCII, PostScript, TeX, Images, PCL
-
-
- Converts-Images
- A program that converts to too many image formats to name!
-
-
- Device-Utility
- A utility for a PostScript device.
-
-
- Document-Previewer
- The previewer has options for viewing text documents. NOTE:
- most previewers make passable document previewer even without
- these extra options.
-
-
- Example
- The source code for this program is a programming example for
- programmers.
-
-
- Font-Utility
- The program does something useful with font descriptions.
-
-
- Interpreter
- The program can understand the PostScript language.
-
-
- Level-2
- The program can interpret a reasonable amount of PostScript
- level 2.
-
-
- Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver
- The program allows PostScript drawings to be printed on at
- least one non-PostScript printer.
-
-
- Page-Reordering
- The program allows you to either choose a page or a few pages
- to print from a big document, or lets you print in reverse
- order, or lets you ``N-Up'', which means to put more than one
- page on a physical page. These programs work only if the
- PostScript input follows the Adobe Document Structuring
- Conventions. (See Section 9, ``Encapsulated PostScript'').
-
-
- Previewer
- The interpreter displays PostScript on the screen.
-
-
- Programmer-Utility
- The program helps write PostScript programs.
-
-
- Text-Formatter
- The program formats text in some interesting way, or lets you
- include PostScript in a text formatter.
-
-
- Written-in-PostScript
- The program is written entirely in PostScript and thus can run
- on any computer with an interpreter, or on any PostScript
- printer.
-
-
- Status
-
-
-
- Shareware
- means that the program is free but the author would like
- money.
-
-
- Free
- means that the program is freely available. This usually means
- that source code is included and that it is freely
- distributable.
-
-
- Commercial
- means that some company sells the program.
-
-
- Platforms:
- What computers does it run on? For the IBM PC, look for
- ``MS-DOS''. For most workstations, look for ``UNIX''.
-
-
- Get-From
- tells where to get the program, through ftp or some other
- source.
-
-
- Subject: 5.4 Interpreters
-
- The following are all programs that understand the PostScript
- graphics programming language. PostScript is an interpreted
- language, which means that there is no compiler for it. An
- interpreter is like a compiler that, instead of producing a
- sequence of actions in machine language for the computer to handle
- at some future time, performs the actions itself immediately.
-
- Most interpreters are also previewers, which allow you to view the
- PostScript drawing as it is created by the PostScript program.
- Unfortunately, viewing the document on-line is not guaranteed to be
- a perfect simulation of printing the document. Complex programs
- that use random numbers or check the device type will almost
- certainly run differently.
-
- Some interpreters are meant for looking at text documents without
- printing them. They usually have a number of functions for flipping
- back and forth between pages. These interpreters are called
- document previewers.
-
-
-
- dxpsview
- from DEC provides user selectable options to control its
- execution. It will accept DSC comments and honor them, but it
- allows the user to turn them off if that's the best thing to do.
-
- It images valid PostScript, it honors color (if the DEC
- workstation is a color workstation), it images one page and stops
- with the showpage so the user can see the image. It allows you to
- page back and forth in the document EVEN IF IT'S NOT DSC! (Sure,
- slow at times if it's not DSC, but it still does the job!) It
- provides scaling and rotation under user control.
-
-
- What: Previewer. Status: commercial. Platforms: DEC
- workstation. Get-From: Digital Equipment Corporation.
-
-
- Freedom of Press
- ???
-
- For most users who only want to print to common printers like
- DeskWriters, StyleWriters, or Personal LaserWriter LS's, the
- light version of Freedom of the Press will suffice. ( $ 55).
-
-
- What: Interpreter, Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver. Status:
- commercial ( $ 55). Platforms: ???. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- Gammascript
- ???
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: ???. Platforms: MS-DOS.
- Get-From: ???.
-
-
- Ghostscript
- is perhaps the most popular previewer. It is a PostScript
- interpreter written by L. Peter Deutsch, and is distributed under
- the terms of the GNU Library General Public License. Unlike
- commercial interpreters, ghostscript isn't tied to a particular
- piece of hardware. Ghostscript will compile on most common
- platforms, and has drivers for many common peripherals, including
- X11R [ 345 ] , MS-DOS-VGA, Deskjet 500, Epson dot matrix
- printers, and HP laserjets.
-
- Ghostscript deals well with ``normal'' documents, such as output
- from Tomas Rokicki's dvips. If you're into testing the outer
- limits of PostScript, however, your mileage with Ghostscript may
- vary. The output character quality is (obviously) dependent upon
- the fonts which ghostscript uses. Most of ghostscript's fonts are
- outlines generated from the bitmap fonts that were donated by
- Adobe to the X consortium. These are certainly good enough for
- screen previewing, and rough drafts, but show their limitations
- when used on laser printers. Fortunately, Ghostscript can use
- type 1 fonts, so if you happen to have some around, you'll find
- that the output quality is very close to that of a PostScript
- interpreter. Ghostscript comes with a few type 1 fonts that were
- donated to the X consortium from Adobe, IBM, and Bitstream. Note
- that if you're using TeX or LaTeX with the cmr fonts, this last
- statement implies that ghostscript will probably suit your needs,
- since your dvi-to-ps converter will include the cmr fonts in its
- output PostScript file.
-
- If you're using IBM OS/2 2.0, you can make a Ghostscript icon and
- drag PostScript files onto it and they'll be printed
- automatically.
-
- Ghostscript 2.2 has been ported to the Atari ST platform by
- Timothy Gallivan. It's available by ftp to
- atari.archive.umich.edu.
-
- For more information about Ghostscript, read the
- gnu.ghostscript.bug newsgroup, or contact the author, Peter
- Deutsch, at ghost@aladdin.com.
-
-
- What: Interpreter, Previewer, Programmer-Utility,
- User-Utility, Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver, Level-2,
- Converts-PostScript-to-GIF, Converts-PostScript-to-PBM.
- Status: free. Platforms: MS-DOS, UNIX, VMS, Xwindows,
- Macintosh, Acorn Archimedes, Atari-ST. Get-From: Japan:
- ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:ftpsync/prep
- Australia: archie.oz.au:gnu Europe: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:gnu,
- ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de,
- ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:pub/gnu,
- nic.funet.fi:pub/gnu, ugle.unit.no, isy.liu.se,
- ftp.stacken.kth.se, sunic.sunet.se, ftp.win.tue.nl,
- ftp.diku.dk, ftp.eunet.ch, archive.eu.net United States:
- ftp.cs.wisc.edu:pub/X, prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu,
- wuarchive.wustl.edu, ftp.cs.widener.edu,
- uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, col.hp.com, gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/GNU,
- ftp.uu.net:systems/gnu. Macintosh:
- sumex-aim.stanford.edu:info-mac/util/ghostscript-252b2-runtime-*.hqx
- Archimedes: contact David Elworthy
- (David.Elworthy@cl.cam.ac.uk).
-
- See Ghostview and GSPreview.
-
-
- Ghostview
- is an X11 user interface for ghostscript. It was written by Tim
- Theisen, and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General
- Public License. Ghostview runs on UNIX and VMS platforms. To
- compile ghostview, you should have the X11R5 distribution from
- MIT. Many vendors do not provide the Athena widgets.
-
- Ghostview provides a menu driven interface with ample keyboard
- accelerators. It also provides popup zoom windows and the ability
- to save or print selected pages.
-
- For more information about ghostview, contact the author, Tim
- Theisen, at ghostview@cs.wisc.edu.
-
-
- What: Bounding-Box, Document-Previewer, Level-2,
- Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: X11 on Unix or
- VMS systems. Get-From: Source:
- ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-1.4.1.tar.Z or
- prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ghostview-1.4.1.tar.Z or other
- GNU distribution points (see ghostscript's listing)
- Binaries: ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-exe directory.
-
-
- GoScript 3.0
- ???
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: ???. Platforms: MS-DOS.
- Get-From: ???.
-
-
- GSPreview
- A document previewer based on GhostScript, by Richard Hesketh.
-
-
- What: Document-Previewer, Level-2. Status: free.
- Platforms: X Windows. Get-From: prep.ai.mit.edu.
-
-
- Hijack-PS
- is part of the Hijaak packge for DOS, or for Windows.
-
-
- What: Interpreter, Converts-???. Status: commercial.
- Platforms: IBM PC. Get-From: MicroWarehouse sells it for
- $ 129.
-
-
- Island Draw
- is a picture editor that can save in and read in PostScript. It
- contains a full PostScript interpreter.
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: ???. Platforms: ???. Get-From:
- ???.
-
-
- JAWS
- ???
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: Commercial. Platforms: Sun.
- Get-From: ???.
-
- Where to get it: uad1077@dircon.co.uk
-
-
- NeXTStep,
- release 3.0 supports full level 2 PostScript.
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: commercial. Platforms: NeXT.
- Get-From: NeXT.
-
-
- Opium
- converts PostScript to several raster image formats. It has
- several language extensions relating to image processing (alpha
- channel, ``forall'' for images etc.) and usability of PostScript
- as a general purpose script language (``system'', secure and
- non-secure modes, etc.) Converts to TIFF 5.0 (including RLE, LZW,
- fax3, fax4, and JPEG compressions), PBM, PGM, PPM, Sixel (VT240,
- LN03), Group 3 fax, ASCII, and HPGL (experimental).
-
-
- What: Interpreter, Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII, Converts
- PostScript-to-TIFF, Converts-Images, Level-2,
- Converts-PostScript-to-HPGL. Status: commercial.
- Platforms: UNIX, Sun, DECstation, AIX, NeXT, Alpha and
- VMS. Get-From: Stream Technologies Inc., Valkjarventie 2,
- SF-02130 Espoo, FINLAND, Tel: +358 0 43577340, Fax: +358
- 0 43577348, Email: info@sti.fi.
-
-
- pageview
- can preview PostScript on the Sun screen. The document must
- follow the DSC conventions described in section 9 (EPSF).
-
-
- What: Previewer. Status: commercial. Platforms:
- OpenWindows. Get-From: Sun.
-
-
- PixelScript
- ???
-
-
- What: Interpreter, Previewer. Status: commercial.
- Platforms: Amiga. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- PowerPage
- from Pipeline Associates handles the special hints in Adobe Type
- 1 fonts (see Section 4, ``Fonts'').
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: commercial. Platforms: ???.
- Get-From: Pipeline Associates.
-
-
- Post
- turns PostScript files into screen images, image files, and
- prints on non-PostScript printers. Scaling & pixel density are
- adjustable by the user. It is excellent, works in color, supports
- types 1 and 3 fonts. By Adrian Aylward, 20 Maidstone Rd Swindon,
- WILTS. UK.
-
- This is not the same as Post for MS-DOS.
-
-
- What: Interpreter, Previewer, Converts-Images. Status:
- free. Platforms: Amiga. Get-From: Compuserve, or from any
- Amiga PD source, in the well-known Fred Fish collection.
- Current version is 1.7, on Fish Disk 669. Or
- grind.isca.uiowa.edu, gatekeeper.dec.com [
- /pub/micro/amiga/fish ] , monu6.cc.monash.edu.au,
- ux1.cso.uiuc.edu [ amiga/fish/f6/ff669 ] .
-
-
- PS-Magic
- ???
-
- Registration is $ 40 and includes the usual 40 font family.
- Otherwise it only includes the Times font family.
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: shareware ( $ 40). Platforms:
- ???. Get-From: Advantage Computer, Box 524, Fremont CA
- 94537, U.S.A. Or, in Toronto, it can be downloaded from
- CRS: Canada Remote Systems (Mississauga).
-
-
- PSView
- ???
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: ???. Platforms: Macintosh.
- Get-From: ???.
-
-
- TScript
- ???
-
- For most users who only want to print to common printers like
- DeskWriters, StyleWriters, or Personal LaserWriter LS's, the
- Basic version of TScript will suffice ( $ 55).
-
- A more complex version is available that works with more esoteric
- printers, particularly color printers and very-high-end
- imagesetters.
-
-
- What: Interpreter. Status: commercial ( $ 55). Platforms:
- Macintosh. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- UltraScript PC
- is a PostScript previewer for level 1 PostScript only.
-
- UltraScript PC can print from within an application. This feature
- requires about 1 Mbyte of memory above the minimum requirement.
- It can process hinted type-1 (Adobe) fonts. The products include
- QMS fonts with metrics that match those of Adobe's fonts.
-
- The main PostScript interpreter in UltraScript PC runs as a TSR,
- mostly living in extended memory (occupies about 24K below the
- 640K line). There is a different TSR called PCAPTURE that
- intercepts LPTn output and routes it to UltraScript, which
- interprets it and prints to the real printer. There's also a
- front-end program which selects printing from an already-existing
- file or lets you run in interactive mode (similar to
- ``executive'' on a PostScript printer).
-
- UltraScript PC is $ 195. It runs in PC/AT compatibles and needs
- about 1M of extended memory. The basic version includes 25 fonts.
- UltraScript PC Plus is $ 445 includes 47 fonts. The previewer
- requires Microsoft Windows 3.
-
- UltraScript for the Macintosh requires at least a 2 Mbyte system
- to run. The basic version is $ 195 and includes 15 fonts.
- UltraScript Plus is $ 495, includes 43 fonts, and has an
- AppleTalk print spooler. It appears on the Chooser as a printer.
-
-
- What: Previewer, Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver,
- Converts-PostScript-to-PCL, Converts-PostScript-to-PCX,
- Converts-PostScript-to-TIFF. Status: commercial.
- Platforms: MS-DOS, Macintosh. Get-From: PM Ware in
- Escondido, California, 1-800-845-4843 or 1-619-738-6633.
- CompuClassics, phone 1-800-733-3888.
-
-
- Subject: 5.5 Utilities
-
- The following are utilities intended to make using PostScript or
- programming in PostScript easier. Many interpreters are also very
- useful utilities. A program that makes something nice-looking but
- does not help you use or program in PostScript would be in one of
- the next section, PostScript Programs. This section has not yet
- been created, but I am accepting information for it!
-
-
-
- a2ps
- v4.2 places two pages on each physical page, borders surrounding
- pages, headers, line numbering, multiple copies, landscape and
- portrait mode, wide format, lines numbering, fold/cut long lines,
- control font size. It can handle 8 bit characters, twin pages in
- portrait mode, and two-side printing.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX, MS-DOS. Get-From: ftp from imag.fr, in
- archive/postscript.
-
-
- asc2ps
- is part of Psroff3.0, and is integrated with psxlate. It is of
- particular interest because it understands nroff's backspace bold
- and italic conventions and doesn't introduce lots of extra bells
- and whistles.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: ???. Get-From: See Psroff3.0.
-
-
- asciiprint.ps
- ???
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript, Example. Status:
- free. Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: zben@umd5.umd.edu
- (Ben Cranston).
-
-
- ato2pps
- prints ASCII printable text boxed, 2-up, in landscape mode.
- Prints boxed header with date & time, file name, and page number.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX, possibly available on Macintosh (C
- program). Get-From: Mark Edwards
- (edwards@vms.macc.wisc.edu).
-
-
- Bar-a-Coda
- is an application for creating PostScript (EPS and EPSI) and TIFF
- bar codes. Bar-a-Coda allows you to easily create an individual
- bar code, a sheet, or many sheets.
-
-
- BarCodeKit
- is an object library (in Objective-C) for creating PostScript
- (EPS and EPSI) and TIFF bar codes.
-
- The two products offer every major bar code symbology. They can
- also create two-dimensional/multiple row bar codes.
-
- Bar codes can be scaled and rotated, colorized, dragged and
- dropped into documents and accessed from any application via the
- NeXTSTEP Services menu.
-
-
- What: User-Utility. Status: Commercial. Platforms:
- NeXTSTEP. Get-From: Hot Technologies, email to
- info@hot.com or phone 617-252-0088.
-
-
- bbfig
- will let you calculate the bounding box of a PostScript picture.
- It prints the figure and then calculates the bounding box around
- the figure and print the box and its coordinates. This usually
- works. However, for the times that it fails you have to measure
- it by hand.
-
-
- What: Bounding-Box. Status: free. Platforms: ???.
- Get-From: world.std.com:/src/text/tex/dvips/contrib,
- emx.cc.utexas.edu:/pub/mnt/source/tex/dvi3ps,
- isfs.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp:/TeX/styles/kth.se.
-
-
- behandler.ps
- is a PostScript error handler. If you prepend it to a broken
- PostScript file it will give a lot of information when the
- program crashes.
-
-
- What: Programmer-Utility. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/behandler.ps and
- behandler.doc.
-
-
- cz
- is table-driven, handles almost any character set, uses any font
- on printer, control font sizes, paper size, page layout, number
- of columns, line numbers, portrait or landscape mode, page
- reversal, leading (line spacing), tab expansion. Emacs interface.
- By Howard Gayle.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: comp.sources.misc volume 8
- issues 65-75, 77-78 ( 1 Oct 1989) issue 97 (28 Oct 1989)
- (Other prerequisites: see README file at beginning of
- issue 65.).
-
-
- crossword.ps
- converts a specially formatted ASCII file to a crossword puzzle.
- By Carl Lydick. Just prepend to an ASCII file and send it to the
- printer.
-
-
- What: Written-in-PostScript,
- Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose body
- consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to
- FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on
- ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV).
-
-
- double.ps
- prints two pages of ASCII side by side in landscape mode. By Carl
- Lydick.
-
-
- What: Written-in-PostScript,
- Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose body
- consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to
- FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on
- ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV).
-
-
- dvips
- , by Tomas Rokicki of Radical Eye Software, is the most popular
- DVI to PostScript conversion program. It converts TeX and LaTeX
- DVI files into PostScript. It also allow you to use PostScript
- fonts and PostScript graphics inside TeX and LaTeX documents. The
- distribution includes the epsffile and psfig macro packages for
- including PostScript graphics.
-
-
- What: Converts-DVI-to-PostScript,
- Converts-PostScript-to-TeX, Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX.
- Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- labrea.stanford.edu:/pub/dvips*.tar.Z.
-
-
- DWB 3
- ???
-
-
- What: ???. Status: ???. Platforms: ???. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- enscript
- formats text in 1 or 2 columns, portrait or landscape, manual
- paper feed, headers, line printer simulation, line wrap or
- truncation, control lines on page, fonts.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: commercial --
- a part of Transcript. Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: Adobe
- Systems.
-
-
- epsffile
- TeX macros to include PostScript figures in TeX or LaTeX
- documents.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-TeX,
- Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From: See the dvips entry.
-
-
- epsffit
- fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box.
-
-
- What: Bounding-Box. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX.
- Get-From: See the psutils entry.
-
-
- epsfinfo.ps
- converts PostScript output to encapsulated PostScript.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-EPS. Status: free.
- Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: The Adobe fileserver:
- ftp.adobe.com.
-
-
- epsonps
- Epson LX-800 to PostScript translator, supports international
- character sets, IBM graphics characters, different width fonts,
- bit-mapped graphics.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: comp.sources.misc.
-
-
- eps2epsi
- does a conversion if you have GhostScript and Perl.
-
-
- What: Converts-EPS-to-EPSI. Status: free. Platforms:
- Perl. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/eps2epsi.shar.
-
-
- ETSR
- in an Epson MX-80 to PostScript translator, includes Epson Mx-80
- graphics modes, supports virtual printers, PrintScreen key
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: commercial.
- Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: $ 75 from Niche Marketing,
- 7198 Camino Colegio, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA. Phone
- +1 707-795-7306. Overseas shipping is $ 5 extra. CA
- residents please include 6.25 % sales tax.
-
-
- fixbb
- Gets the bounding box of a PostScript file made with Framemaker,
- because Frame gets it wrong sometimes. Uses an idea of Doug
- Crabhill's.
-
-
- What: Bounding-Box. Status: free. Platforms: You need
- Poskanzer's pbm toolkit, Ghostscript, and GNU awk (or awk
- and sed). Get-From: email to jgm@cs.brown.edu.
-
-
- fontutils
- ???
-
- The GNU font-making utilities. They can convert a PostScript font
- to TeX's TK format.
-
-
- What: Convert-PostScript-to-TK. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From: prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu.
-
-
- getafm
- outputs PostScript to retrieve an AFM file from printer.
-
-
- What: Device-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX.
- Get-From: See the psutils entry.
-
-
- Groff
- is a Free Software Foundation package that can convert troff to
- PostScript.
-
-
- What: Converts-Troff-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX, C++. Get-From: prep.ai.mit.edu.
-
-
- gs_2asc.ps
- prints all the characters of a PostScript program as well as the
- (X,Y) positions. You can use the (X,Y) positions to retain the
- format of your document, as well as just the strings.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free.
- Platforms: GhostScript. Get-From: included in
- GhostScript.
-
-
- hp2pbm
- can convert all of PCL4 (up to and including rasters, downloaded
- fonts and macros). It's somewhat slow because it converts PCL
- into Poskanzer's Portable Bitmap format rasters (PBM) before
- generating PostScript, but it's theoretically pixel-for-pixel
- identical with the original PCL. Plus it's capable of driving
- many other types of graphics devices or printers.
-
-
- What: Converts-PCL-to-PBM, Converts-PCL-to-PostScript,
- Interpreter, Non-PostScript-Printer-Driver. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: comp.sources.misc, soon to be
- a part of Psroff3.0.
-
-
- hp2ps
- is an HPGL interpreter written in Postscript, with a small C
- wrapper program, to allow programs written for most pen plotters
- to work on Postscript output devices. Written by Alun Jones
- (alun@wst.com).
-
-
- What: Converts-HPGL-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: PostScript, C. Get-From:
- huey.wst.com:/pub/hp2ps.
-
-
- hp2xx
- can convert HPGL into encapsulated PostScript.
-
-
- What: Converts-HPGL-to-PostScript, Converts-HPGL-to-EPS
- Status: free. Platforms: ??? Get-From:
- aeneas.mit.edu:pub/gnu/hp2xx-3.1.0.tar.z
-
-
- hpscat
- features Hangul (Korean).
-
- Unfortunately, font is not a part of 'hpscat'. It's a property of
- ELEX Inc., a Korean Mac dealer.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: ???.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: kum.kaist.ac.kr or
- cair.kaist.ac.kr.
-
-
- i2ps
- handles ISO 8859/1 and Norwegian ISO 646. Written in Perl. Line
- numbers, wrap or truncate long lines, landscape, 2 or 3 column,
- control body font size.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX (any Perl platform). Get-From: Get-from
- alt.sources article (AAS.90Oct30172546@boeygen.nr.no)
- posted 30 October 1990.
-
-
- ImageMagick
- is an X11 package for display and interactive manipulation of
- images. Includes tools for image conversion, annotation,
- compositing, animation, and creating montages. ImageMagick can
- read and write many of the more popular image formats including
- Postscript. By John Cristy (cristy@dupont.com), E. I. du Pont de
- Nemours & Co.
-
- ImageMagick uses GhostScript.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images, Converts-PostScript-to-TIFF,
- Document-Previewer, Converts-TIFF-to-PostScript. Status:
- free. Platforms: X11. Get-From:
- export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z.
-
-
- imtools
- Converts just about everything in the image bitmap universe.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX.
- Get-From: San Diego Supercomputer Center distributes
- binaries only.
-
-
- Impressario
- Converts text, SGI image, and PostScript (and a number of other
- formats) to print on HP Series II and III (PCL4 and above)
- printers. It includes format conversions, and even does
- line-by-line adaptive compression to ensure the fastest
- transmission times.
-
- It's for use on any SGI box running IRIX 4.0.1 or later.
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-PCL. Status: Commercial, $ 800.
- Platforms: SGI's IRIX. Get-From: Silicon Graphics.
-
-
- LameTeX
- can convert simple LaTeX to PostScript or to ASCII.
-
- It specializes in complete versatility of the printed page. The
- standard model for text formatters is that every page is
- necessarily rectangular. LameTeX will let you format text inside
- a triangular page, or a circle page. Just like professional
- magazine editors, you can include pictures of any shape and ask
- the text to flow around them or inside them.
-
- These flexible arbitrarily-shaped margins are PostScript paths.
- If you don't know PostScript, it contains a big library of
- interesting LameTeX page margins. With LameTeX you can fit
- several ``pages'' onto one 8.5x11 inch piece of paper, so you can
- easily make index cards, labels, and half-pages of text.
-
- Also, if you know how to write programs in PostScript, LameTeX
- allows you to very tightly integrate your LameTeX commands with
- your PostScript code. In fact, the PostScript that LameTeX
- outputs is nicely formatted and commented so that you can modify
- it yourself and see how it's done. LameTeX is written with
- PostScript version 1, so it should run on all PostScript
- printers.
-
- LameTeX is in use for Usenet FAQs for comp.lang.postscript,
- comp.sources.postscript, comp.text.tex, rec.boats, comp.fonts,
- alt.quotations, and comp.os.linux.
-
- Finally, everything about LameTeX is set up to be compatible with
- LaTeX. LameTeX can't do everything that LaTeX can, but the
- special stealth commands guarantee that your fancy LameTeX
- document can be processed by normal LaTeX. This allows you to
- share it with anyone who doesn't happen to have LameTeX.
-
- By Jon Monsarrat, jgm@cs.brown.edu.
-
-
- What: Converts-LaTeX-to-PostScript, Text-Formatter,
- Converts-LaTeX-to-ASCII. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX,
- any C++ platform. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/lametex.tar.Z.
-
-
- landscape.ps
- prints pages of 132 characters by 60 lines in landscape mode in 9
- point Courier. By Carl Lydick. Just prepend to an ASCII file and
- send it to the printer.
-
-
- What: Written-in-PostScript,
- Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose body
- consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to
- FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on
- ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV).
-
-
- lineprinter.ps
- is a simple text to PostScript translator.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: ???.
- Platforms: PostScript. Get-From: from the Adobe file
- server (see Section 6, ``About Adobe'').
-
-
- lj2ps
- does a conversion of a (small) subset of PCL into PostScript. By
- Chris Lewis.
-
- There is a different lj2ps in psroff3.0 which does a somewhat
- more complete job (handles downloaded LJ fonts) and should work
- well with most ``WP'' or text processing applications.
-
-
- What: Converts-PCL-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: comp.sources.misc.
-
-
- lpp
- features headers, different paper sizes, borders, font, font
- size, banner page, truncate or fold long lines, adjust margins,
- Swedish ISO 646, ISO 8859/1, multiple copies, landscape or
- portrait, multiple columns, localized date, double-sided
- printing, nroff font selection, and more.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX, VMS, TOPS-20. Get-From: send request to
- fred@nada.kth.se (Fredric Ihren). UNIX-version is
- shareware ( 8 single-user, 12 multi-user). TOPS-20 and
- VMS versions free.
- .
-
-
- lprps
- is a collection of programs for interfacing the BSD lpr spooler
- to a PostScript printer over a bidirectional serial link.
-
-
-
- What:
- Device-Utility
-
- Status:
- free
-
- Platforms:
- UNIX (SunOS, Ultrix, and other BSD-based versions)
-
- Get-From:
- comp.sources.misc volumes 31 and 32, or
- ftp.jclark.com:/pub/lprps/lprps-2.4.tar.Z
-
- lwf features indent, portrait/landscape, margin adjust, page
- range, point size, tab stops, headers, page reversal, multicolumn
- printing (via pr).
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX.
-
- Get-From:
- comp.sources.unix volume 15 issue 8, 25 May 1988, archive
- name lwf (obsolete version with minor bugs). An updated
- version can be ftp'ed from cs.ubc.ca (137.82.8.5) as
- pub/lwf-2.2.shar.Z.
-
-
- macps
- is a Unix program that takes an uploaded PostScript file created
- on a Macintosh (by typing Command-F at the LaserWriter dialog
- box; see macps.1 for more details) and includes an appropriately
- modified LaserPrep file so that the result can be sent to a
- PostScript printer from Unix. The LaserPrep file contains macros
- used by the PostScript generator on the Macintosh.
-
- Macps is difficult to install, and may not really be necessary.
-
-
- What: Device-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX.
- Get-From:
- src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/computing/systems/mac/macps/macps-23.shar
- and sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/unix/macps-23.shar.
-
-
- mutips
- is a package that can print four pages to a sheet, etc.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: ???.
- Get-From: ftp.su.oz.au: pub/ps_printing/multi/*
-
-
- mp
- lets you print mail messages and news articles, including
- digests, as well as ASCII text files. 2-up landscape mode. Prints
- Filofax, Franklin Planner, Time Manager, and Time/System
- International formats.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: iesd.auc.dk (130.225.48.4) in
- the PostScript directory, or ftp.adelaide.edu.au
- (129.127.40.3) in the pub/sun/richb directory.
-
-
- mpage
- prints ASCII or PostScript 1-, 2-, 4-, or 8-up, optionally boxed
- or landscape. Automatically figures out whether input is ASCII
- text or PostScript. Can arrange pages down or across and print a
- count of pages printed.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- ftp.eng.umd.edu:pub/misc/mpage-2.tar.Z.
-
-
- nenscript
- is an enscript clone.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: MS-DOS, UNIX, OS/2. Get-From:
- comp.lang.postscript article
- (geoffw.718500346@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU), posted 7 October
- 1992. You can find nenscript for OS/2 1.x--2.0 and MSDOS
- on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/all/nensc113.zip. A
- portable unzip program is available in comp.sources.misc.
-
-
- numbered.ps
- prints pages of 80 characters by 58 lines in portrait mode, with
- pages numbered in the lower-right corner in 11 point Courier. By
- Carl Lydick. Just prepend to an ASCII file and send it to the
- printer.
-
-
- What: Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose body
- consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to
- FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on
- ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV).
-
-
- quarto.c
- shuffles and scales PostScript pages. It does signature printing,
- reversal, page selection, page listing, etc. By Michael Hawley.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: C.
- Get-From: wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/quarto.c.
-
-
- PBM utilities
- in the X11R4 and X11R5 distributions can convert between many
- image formats. They handle:
-
-
- Sun icon file reading writing
- Sun raster file reading writing
- X10 and X11 bitmap file reading writing
- MacPaint reading writing
- CMU window manager format reading writing
- MGR format reading writing
- Group 3 FAX reading writing
- X11 window dump file reading writing
- X10 window dump file reading
- Xerox doodle brushes reading
- GEM .img format reading
- PC paintbrush (.pcx) format reading
- PICT reading
- ASCII graphics writing
- HP LaserJet format writing
- GraphOn graphics writing
- BBN BitGraph graphics writing
- Printronix format writing
-
- See PPM and PGM for more X Windows conversion help.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms: X11.
- Get-From: ???.
-
-
- PBMPLUS
- can convert between a lot of image formats. By Jef Poskanzer.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms: ???.
- Get-From: export.lcs.mit.edu as /contrib/pbmplus*.tar.Z.
-
-
- pc2ps
- handles IBM code page 437 line graphic symbols.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: ???.
- Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: GIERSIG@EDVZ.ATI.ADA.AT
- (Roland Giersig).
-
-
- PdB
- version 2.1 is an ANSI-C to PostScript optimizing compiler that
- allows you to write PostScript programs in C.
-
- There is no more need to write PostScript! Start using PdB right
- now! PdB is an optimizing compiler to compile ANSI-C (like) code
- into Adobe compatible PostScript. The release of version 2.1
- includes:
-
- Binaries for Sun SPARC station and IBM RS6000; Include files for
- Abobe PostScript level; Include files for NeWS upto version 3.1.;
- Include files for TNT upto version 3.1.; Support for CPS
- OpenWindows upto version 3.1.; Support NeWS classing in a C++
- manner; Plenty of examples of all the above functions.;
- NeWS/OpenWindows test suite.; PostScript reference manual.; UNIX
- manual pages.
-
-
- What: Converts-C-to-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- ANSI-C. Get-From: turing.com:pub/pdb2.1-demo.tar.Z.
-
-
- PGM utilities
- in the X11R4 and X11R5 distributions can convert between many
- image formats. They handle:
-
-
- TIFF reading
- Usenix FaceSaver file reading
- HIPS reading
- FITS reading writing
- PostScript ``image'' data reading
- raw grayscale bytes reading
- Encapsulated PostScript writing
-
- See PBM and PPM for more X Windows conversion help.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms: X11.
- Get-From: ???.
-
-
- portrait.ps
- prints pages of 80 characters by 60 lines in portrait mode in 11
- point Courier. Just prepend to an ASCII file and send it to the
- printer.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript,
- Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose body
- consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to
- FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on
- ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV).
-
-
- Post
- handles control margins, fonts, orientation, scaling This is not
- the same as Post for the Amiga.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: shareware ( $
- 5). Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: F. C. Betts, Veda
- Incorporated, Suite 200, 5200 Springfield Pike, Dayton,
- OH 45431, U.S.A.
-
-
- POSTPRN
- is a device driver that prints portrait and landscape, and 1-up,
- 2-up, and 4-up pages. Automatically converts ASCII to PostScript
- simply by opening the device and writing to it.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From:
- grape.ecs.clarkson.edu:/d/dosutil/postprn.zip
- (315)268-6667 (1N8, 12/2400), file area 7, postprn.zip.
-
-
- PostScript Processing Speed Test version 3.1
- measures the speed of your PostScript device. By Jean-Serge
- Gagnon.
-
-
- What: Device-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: ???.
- Get-From: GAAJ.UOTTAWA.CA (132.122.6.203).
-
-
- The PostScript Zone
- lets you pretend your PostScript programming space is three
- dimensional. This package is a set of headers that you can add to
- your files to make them know how to draw in three dimensions. By
- Jonathan Monsarrat (jgm@cs.brown.edu).
-
- The page, of course, is a perspective two-dimensional projection
- of this three-dimensional drawing space. You can adjust this
- projection, rotate your three-dimensional coordinate system,
- translate, and so on.
-
- You can convert any 2D PostScript image into 3-space, warping it
- over any arbitrary transformation or over a surface.
-
- The Zone is written entirely in PostScript level 1 and runs on
- any PostScript device.
-
- The Zone comes with a C program that lets you interactively build
- a 3D image and rotate it with simple keystrokes.
-
- The PostScript Zone also has examples of arbitrary non-affine
- transformations and conformal mapping.
-
-
- What: 3D, Warps, Conformal-Mapping,
- Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From: wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/zone.tar.Z.
-
-
- postscript.el
- is an emacs mode for PostScript programming. There's a much
- better version of Chris Maio's -- it's definitely worth replacing
- your September 1988 version with the 11/22/90 patch by John
- Relph.
-
-
- What: Programmer-Utility, elisp. Status: free. Platforms:
- Emacs. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/postscript.el.
-
-
- pps
- is designed to be extended into further tools. It consists of a
- front-end that converts the file into generic PostScript. You
- tack a header onto it that defines the behavior of tabs, font
- changes, newlines, formfeeds, and so on.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: alt.sources and
- comp.lang.postscript article
- (1992May13.013042.23844@NeoSoft.com), posted 13 May 1992.
-
-
- psformat.shar
- is a PostScript code beautifier.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: ???. Get-From: The Adobe file server,
- ftp.adobe.com.
-
-
- pstoepsi
- converts arbitrary PostScript to Encapsulated PostScript with an
- optional preview Image using either a UNIX based or PC based
- (TIFF) preview format. This means it can generate EPS, EPSI, and
- EPSF. By Doug Crabill (dgc@cs.purdue.edu).
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-EPS,
- Converts-PostScript-to-EPSI. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX, need PBMPLUS and either GhostScript or OpenWindows
- (version 2 or 3). Get-From:
- ftp.cs.purdue.edu:pub/pstoepsi-1.2.shar.Z
-
-
- PPM
- utilities in the X11R4 and X11R5 distributions can convert
- between many image formats. They handle:
-
-
- color Sun raster file reading writing
- GIF reading writing
- Amiga IFF ILBM reading writing
- color X11 window dump file reading writing
- color X10 window dump file reading
- MTV ray-tracer output reading
- QRT ray-tracer output reading
- TrueVision Targa file reading
- Img-whatnot file reading
- color Encapsulated PostScript writing
-
- See PBM and PGM for more X Windows conversion help.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms: X11.
- Get-From: ???.
-
-
- printer
- uses Monofont (Courier); monosize (12 pitch). With other devps
- programs, it supports portrait and landscape printing, manual
- feed, reverse page order printing, message and other overlays,
- control-L (form feed) page eject.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: commercial.
- Platforms: UNIX, MS-DOS. Get-From: Part of Pipeline
- Associates' devps package.
-
-
- ps2a.sh
- Converts PostScript to ASCII on a Sun by sending the PS into psh
- or Ghostscript. The ASCII is spat back out on stdout. It does a
- reasonable job since it uses positional information to determine
- word breaks. The greatest weakness is that it does not understand
- fonts.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au:/pub/comp/src/ps2a.sh or
- iamsun.unibe.ch:PostScript/ps2a.sh.
-
-
- ps2ascii
- The output from this gives a rough ascii version of the
- postscript document. Requires a PostScript interpreter (such as
- Ghostscript) and perl. Written by Steven Dick (ssd@engr.ucf.edu).
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- apocalypse.engr.ucf.edu:/usr/ssd/ps2ascii.shar.
-
-
- ps2ascii.pl
- prints all the words of a PostScript program.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX (any Perl platform). Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/ps2ascii.pl.
-
-
- ps2ascii.ps
- prints all the words of a PostScript program as well as the (X,Y)
- positions. You can use the (X,Y) positions to retain the format
- of your document, as well as just the strings.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII,
- Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/ps2ascii.ps.
-
-
- ps2eps-11
- is a UNIX program that lets you convert an EPS file into EPSF. It
- uses GhostScript and PBMPLUS. It creates a macbinary file which
- can be transferred to the Mac using macbinary option. It can use
- almost any PS including that from some other Mac application
- after cleaning with macps.
-
-
- What: Converts-EPS-to-EPSF. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From:
- sumex-aim.stanford.edu:info-mac/unix/ps2eps-11.shar.
-
-
- ps2pk
- is astandalone C program which rasterizes a PostScript font into
- TeX's PK format.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-TeX. Status: free.
- Platforms: ???. Get-From: ftp.urc.tue.nl,
- ipc1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de:/pub/tex/utilities/ps2pk,
- rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de:/.serv2/soft/tex/utilities/ps2pk,
- miki.cs.titech.ac.jp:/pub/text/TeX/misc/ps2pk,
- src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/tex/fonts/utilities/ps2pk.
-
-
- ps2txt
- is by Iqbal Qazi.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: ???.
- Platforms: ???. Get-From:
- reseq.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de in
- /informatik.public/news/alt.sources/ps2txt,
- keos.helsinki.fi in /pub/archives/alt.sources/ps2txt.
-
-
- ps2a.sh
- is a UNIX shellscript that redefines the show and related
- operators in the manner you suggest, and decides when kerning is
- taking place. By Leonard Hamey.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: ftp.mpce.mq.edu.au.
-
-
- psbook
- can rearrange pages in a PostScript file into ``signatures''.
- This is useful for printing books or booklets.
-
- From the psutils collection by Angus Duggan.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX.
- Get-From: See the psutils entry.
-
-
- psbox
- allows ps files to be included in TeX documents, and allows ps
- figures to to resized as required.
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-TeX Status: free. Platforms:
- TeX Get-From: cs.nyu.eduu:pub/tex/psbox
-
-
- psf
- can do 2-up, 4-up, landscape, portrait, control fonts and sizes,
- double-sided printing, scaling, banner page.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX, Xenix, MS-DOS. Get-From:
- comp.sources.misc volume 12 issues 104-109, archive name
- psf2. Or ftp to fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca:pub/psf/psf3.5.tar.Z
-
-
- PsFrag,
- by Craig Barratt, is a set of LaTeX macros for overlaying
- postscript figures with fragments of LaTeX. More precisely, the
- PsFrag macros allow specific pieces of postscript text in a
- postscript figure (included via\epsfbox or\special) to be
- replaced with arbitrary fragments of LaTeX. When your document is
- latex'ed and dvips'ed, each piece of postscript text is replaced
- by the LaTeX text.
-
- The postscript file might be produced, for example, by xfig,
- idraw, matlab, xmath, etc. Each string displayed by postscript's
- show operator is a candidate for replacement by LaTeX text, math
- symbols, equations, pictures etc. For example, you can include a
- matlab plot in a LaTeX document with the title, axis labels, and
- legend generated by LaTeX.
-
- The LaTeX fragments can be optionally rotated, scaled, and
- repositioned relative to the text being replaced. The LaTeX
- fragments automatically track the postscript text position as the
- postscript file is modified, or as the scaling and offsets of the
- \special or\epsfbox are changed.
-
- You need GhostScript and dvips from Radical Eye Software to use
- the program.
-
-
- What: Converts-TeX-to-PostScript,
- Converts-LaTeX-to-PostScript, Text-Formatter,
- Converts-PostScript-to-TeX, Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX.
- Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- isl.stanford.edu:pub/boyd/psfrag/psfrag.tar.Z.
-
-
- psfig
- allows you to include PostScript easily in your LaTeX or TeX or
- ditroff documents. By Trevor Darrell.
-
-
- What: Text-Formatter, Converts-PostScript-to-TeX,
- Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX,
- Converts-PostScript-to-Troff. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From: ftp.uu.net
- /usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume11/psfig or
- csc-sun.math.utah.edu:/pub/tex/pub/psfig
-
-
- psnup
- puts many PostScript pages on one page.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: ???.
- Get-From: Part of psutils. .
-
-
- PSR
- is a DOS version of the UNIX program.
-
-
- What: ???. Status: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript.
- Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: Bill Silvert
- (silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca).
-
-
- psroff3.0
- contains programs that can convert TeX PK format or HP SFP format
- fonts into PostScript bitmap fonts. While bitmap fonts scale
- poorly, this is sometimes of use in special circumstances. By
- Chris Lewis.
-
-
- What: Converts-PK-to-PostScript,
- Converts-SFP-to-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX, for psxlate and asc2ps also VMS. Get-From:
- ftp.uunet.ca in distrib/chris_lewis/psroff3.0.
-
-
- psselect
- lets you select pages and ranges of pages to be printed from
- among all the pages of a big document.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX.
- Get-From: See the psutils entry.
-
-
- pstext
- handles tabs and backspaces, prints two-up, landscape or
- portrait.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: email to jgm@cs.brown.edu .
-
-
- pstops
- rearranges the pages in a PostScript file.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: ???. Platforms: UNIX.
- Get-From: See the psutils entry.
-
-
- PSTricks
- v0.93 is an extensive collection of PostScript macros that is
- compatible with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX ,
- LaTeX AmSTeX and AmS-LaTeX. Included are macros for color,
- graphics, rotation, trees and overlays. It has several special
- features:
-
-
-
- * There is a wide variety of graphics (picture drawing) macros,
- with a flexible interface and with color support. All lines
- and outlines can be solid, dotted or dashed. Lines and curves
- can have arrowheads, t-bars, brackets or circles on the ends.
- Regions can be filled with solid colors, lines or crosshatch.
- By Timothy Van Zandt
-
-
- * There is support for polar and cartesian coordinate systems.
-
-
- * There are macros for plots and axes.
-
-
- * Nested rotations can be made with respect to the physical
- page.
-
-
- * There are flexible node macros, useful for trees, mathematical
- diagrams, and linking information of any kind.
-
-
- * There is a powerful loop macro that is useful for making
- pictures.
-
-
- * There are macros for coloring or shading the cells of tables.
-
-
- What: Text-Formatter, Converts-PostScript-to-TeX,
- Converts-PostScript-to-LaTeX. Status: free. Platforms:
- UNIX. Get-From: princeton.edu:pub/tvz/pstricks.tar.Z.
-
-
- PSxlate is part of psroff3.0, and is available from
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering, Device-Utility. Status: free.
- Platforms: UNIX. Get-From: comp.sources.unix archives, or
- ftp.uunet.ca in /distrib/chris_
- lewis/psroff3.0/part??.Z.
-
-
- psutils is a set of useful PostScript utilities: epsffit,
- getafm, psbook, psnup, psselect, pstops, and showchar. By Angus
- Duggan
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript, Page-Reordering.
- Status: free. Platforms: UNIX. Get-From:
- ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk:pub/ajcd/psutils.tar.Z.
-
-
- SerialOff.PS works with SerialEHandler.ps to communicate
- bidirectionally to the printer. Works on PostScript 2 printers
- only.
-
-
- What: Device-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: .
- Get-From: wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript.
-
-
- showchar outputs PostScript to draw a character with metric
- information.
-
-
- What: Font-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: UNIX.
- Get-From: See the psutils entry.
-
-
- spike.ps prints out an ASCII file in PostScript. Just prepend
- to an ASCII file and send it to the printer. You can play with
- the margins, font, etc. easily. By John Hughes.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: PostScript.
- Platforms: Written-in-PostScript. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/spike.ps.
-
-
- StripFonts strips out font definitions from a PostScript file
- intended to be printed on a printer which already knows the
- fonts.
-
-
- What: Font-Utility. Status: free. Platforms: Macintosh.
- Get-From: ???.
-
-
- swtext started off as a clone of Adobe's ``enscript'', but is
- now greatly enhanced, and has large numbers of columns,
- ``document'' mode with paragraph fills and *bold* and_italic _
- printing (controlled by *...* and_... _ respectively), more
- control over page layout....
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: commercial.
- Platforms: ???. Get-From: Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall,
- Barrington, Cambridge, CAMBS, United Kingdom.
- scriptworks-request@harlqn.co.uk.
-
-
- t1utils can convert PFB to PFA. By Lee Hetherington.
-
-
- What: Converts-PFB-to-PFA, Converts-PFA-to-PFB. Status:
- free. Platforms: ???. Get-From: ftp.cs.umb.edu
- (192.12.26.23): /pub/misc/t1utils-1.1.tar.Z.
-
-
- text2ps allows arbitrary rotation, control body font, body
- font size, horizontal spacing, leading, left margin on even and
- odd pages, top margin, fold long lines
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: ???.
- Platforms: DOS, UNIX?. Get-From: comp.binaries.ibm.pc,
- volume 1, archive name text2ps.
-
-
- TOPS is a very simple text to ps filter. Quite fast.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: MS-DOS. Get-From: Ian Farquhar
- (ifarqhar@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz.au).
-
-
- Trimmer strips out font definitions from a PostScript file
- intended to be printed on a printer which already knows the
- fonts.
-
-
- What: Font-Utility. Status: Shareware. Platforms:
- Macintosh. Get-From: ???.
-
-
- unps
-
-
- What: Converts-PostScript-to-ASCII. Status: free.
- Platforms: POSIX, UNIX with nawk. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/unps.
-
-
- up is a Perl hack to convert ps files to n-up (conforming
- output from conforming input, so you can pass it through
- again...), where n is whatever you want it to be, based on a
- configuration file. It also includes page-reordering for
- book-making.
-
-
- What: Page-Reordering. Status: free. Platforms: Perl.
- Get-From: comp.sources.misc late in '89 (volume 8).
-
-
- wide.ps prints pages of 132 characters by 103 lines in
- portrait mode in 6 point Courier. Just prepend to an ASCII file
- and send it to the printer. By Carl Lydick.
-
-
- What: Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript,
- Written-in-PostScript. Status: free. Platforms:
- PostScript. Get-From: send a mail message whose body
- consists of the line ``SEND ASCII_TO_POSTSCRIPT'' to
- FILESERV@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (or, if you're on
- ESnet/NSInet, to SOL1::FILESERV).
-
-
- wmap2ps converts map files (MP1 format) from John B.
- Allison's 'The World Digitized' package to EPSF 2.0 conforming
- PostScript files. The latitude is usually projected using the
- mercator projection and the resulting figure may be scaled and
- positioned to the needs of the user.
-
-
- What: Converts-MP1-to-PostScript. Status: free.
- Platforms: PostScript. Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/postscript/wmap2ps.shar.
-
-
- xpr is converts the bitmap from any X window to PostScript.
-
- To convert an image to PostScript in X windows, you can display
- the image on the screen and then use ``xpr -device ps'' in the
- resulting X11 window. For example, to convert GIF to PostScript,
- use xv or xshowgif (ftp from bongo.cc.utexas.edu (128.83.186.13))
- and then xpr.
-
-
- What: Converts-Images. Status: ???. Platforms: X11.
- Get-From: ???.
-