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- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 13:46 EDT
- From: "GEOFF SELIG - CONCORDIA U. COMPUTING SERVICES"
- Subject: Ascii to Postscript
-
- Jean-Serge --
-
- I read your note in Info-IBMPC Digest regarding ASCII to PostScipt
- printing. I am attaching a series of Postscript "programs" that will
- allow you to do exactly what you requested. Just break the file into
- its separate parts, change the <FF> string into a true formfeed, and
- have fun.
-
- By the way, the original posting of the programs came from a VAX/VMS
- discussion list -- thus the comments about daemons, etc.
-
- Good luck
-
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-
- > does anyone out there have a program (maybe with fortran source) that
- > will take a text file and convert it into a postscript file?????
-
- > I can't just use the postscript symbiont that is in the pd archives
- > becoz the prionter I want to print on isn't on a VAX
-
- Why use FORTRAN as the language? Why not use PostScript? Here are a
- few useful PostScript programs. Just prepend the one that formats the
- file the way you want it to the file you want to print, then send it to
- the printer. Note: The string <FF> in each of these programs should be
- replaced with an actual formfeed.
-
- I forgot to mention that if you don't have a symbiont (or print daemon,
- or whatever) that ends each job with a control-D, you also have to
- append a control-D to the file before sending it to the printer if you
- use my PostScript programs to print the file.
-
-