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From: Frederick Williams on 2 Aug 2010 11:47 I am looking for a program that will turn plain ASCII in to postscript. Things such as font and margin widths should be user-selectable. I'd like the source so that I can see how it works. Any suggestions? -- I can't go on, I'll go on.
From: Jongware on 2 Aug 2010 11:54 On 02-Aug-10 17:47 PM, Frederick Williams wrote: > I am looking for a program that will turn plain ASCII in to postscript. > Things such as font and margin widths should be user-selectable. I'd > like the source so that I can see how it works. Any suggestions? I wrote such things for the sheer fun of it, talking directly to a LaserWriter with a terminal connection :-) Googling for PostScript ASCII Printer, I got a few hits; this one seems to do the basics: http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~zben/PostScript/asciiprint.html (and it comes with a How it Works section). [Jw]
From: Frederick Williams on 2 Aug 2010 12:07 Jongware wrote: > > On 02-Aug-10 17:47 PM, Frederick Williams wrote: > > I am looking for a program that will turn plain ASCII in to postscript. > > Things such as font and margin widths should be user-selectable. I'd > > like the source so that I can see how it works. Any suggestions? > > I wrote such things for the sheer fun of it, talking directly to a > LaserWriter with a terminal connection :-) I wish to communicate with an HP LaserJet P1006 because I can't copy plain text to it. > Googling for PostScript ASCII Printer, I got a few hits; this one seems > to do the basics: > > http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~zben/PostScript/asciiprint.html > > (and it comes with a How it Works section). Thank you, that looks interesting. -- I can't go on, I'll go on.
From: Jussi Piitulainen on 2 Aug 2010 12:20 Frederick Williams writes: > I am looking for a program that will turn plain ASCII in to postscript. > Things such as font and margin widths should be user-selectable. I'd > like the source so that I can see how it works. Any suggestions? There's enscript. Lots of options. The versions I've used turn Latin-1 to Postscript. Google finds it easily, in FSF Free Software Directory no less. Now I need something that turns UTF-8 to PDF. Output is no problem, I just pipe the Postscript to ps2pdf. For input, there's paps, which Google finds at http://paps.sourcearchive.com/. Few options.
From: rouben on 2 Aug 2010 12:29
In article <4C56E884.DDEBCEAC(a)tesco.net>, Frederick Williams <frederick.williams2(a)tesco.net> wrote: >I am looking for a program that will turn plain ASCII in to postscript. >Things such as font and margin widths should be user-selectable. I'd >like the source so that I can see how it works. Any suggestions? Have a look at mpage: http://www.mesa.nl/pub/mpage/ -- Rouben Rostamian |