Last updated: 23-Apr-92 PD6: Various PostScript-related programs for converting other formats to PostScript, printing PostScript, etc. See also PD6: for the GNU PostScript interpreter, and PD6: for some programs to convert Macintosh formats to PostScript. A2PS.TAR-Z An ASCII file to PostScript conversion program. Version 3.0. Contributor: Miguel Santana CASSETTE.TAR-Z A program for printing cassette or CD labels. Generates PostScript. Label format is configurable by means of a config file. Contributor: Remco Bruyne CASSETTE-LABEL.TAR-Z A program which reads a list of (album, artist, songlist) and generates a PostScript description of a label which will fit into a standard cassette tape case. Contributor: Tom Smith CHEQ.TAR-Z The Adobe chess font, "cheq". It is licensed royalty-free from Adobe. Includes the ASCII downloadable font, the font metrics, the Mac printer and screen fonts, and Mac text examples of the font. Contributor: John Renner CIF2PS1.TAR-Z A CIF to PostScript filter which can take the place of "cifplot". Contributor: Marc Lesure CIF2PS2.TAR-Z Another CIF to PostScript filter. Derived from CIF2PS1.TAR-Z. Contributor: Gordon W. Ross GIFTOPS.TAR-Z A program to convert a GIF-format file to PostScript. Contributor: Scott Hemphill HPGL2PS1.TAR-Z A program to filter HPGL (Hewlett Packard Graphics Language) to PostScript. Contributor: Don McCormick HPGL2PS2.TAR-Z Another HPGL to PostScript conversion utility. Contributor: Federico Heinz LABEL2PS.TAR-Z Print labels to a PostScript printer. Allows use of arbitrary PostScript commands inside each label for figures, etc. Contributor: Sarantos Kapidakis LJ2PS.TAR-Z A program to translate HP LaserJet PCL IV (subset) code to PostScript. Does not handle macros, position stack cmds, graphics, or downloadable fonts. But has the hooks for them... Contirbutor: Chris Lishka LWF.TAR-Z A LaserWriter filter. Converts ASCII to PostScript. Contributor: Barry Brachman LWF-KANJI.TAR-Z A modification of LWF.TAR-Z which prints files in Kanji (Japanese). Contributor: Greg Lee MP.TAR-Z A program to print your mail messages in PostScript. Works with Berkeley mail (and presumably System V mailx). Version 2.4.5. Contributor: Rich Burridge MPAGE.TAR-Z A program to print text or PostScript input in n-up format. Contributor: Mark Hahn NNSCRIPT.TAR-Z A front end for "enscript" from Adobe. Contributor: Wayne Thompson PLOT2PS.TAR-Z A plot(5) to PostScript converter. Includes a general purpose plot library which outputs PostScript. Contributor: Rene' Seindal POSTSCRIPT.TAR-Z A virtually complete implementation of PostScript. The program was developed and works on Sun workstations; it should port elsewhere with little difficulty. There is an X Windows (V10R4) driver included. The patches allow it to run under Suntools and X V11R2. Contributor: Crispin Goswell PPS.TAR-Z A pretty-printer for PostScript printers. Handles C, awk, sh, lisp, mail, PostScript, English. Adding other languages is simple (it says). Sort of like "vgrind". Contributor: Smadi Paradise PSCAL.TAR-Z A PostScript calendar-printing tool which handles holidays, appointments, etc. Just one of many versions of this program. Contributor: Andrew W. Rogers PSF.TAR-Z PostScript printer support for Xenix systems. Works by imitating a Xenix-conformant printer, and then does the PostScript printing itself. Also works for non-Xenix systems. Version 2.0. Contributor: Tony Field PSFIG-TEX.TAR-Z A package to include PostScript (and Macintosh) figures in TeX. It's mostly done with a new macro package. Requires "dvips" from ArborText. Contributor: Trevor Darrell PSFIG-TROFF.TAR-Z A package to include PostScript figures in device-independent "troff". Requires AT&T Documenter's Workbench 2.0 "troff" (the stuff on the 4.3BSD tape *will not work*. Also requires Adobe Transcript with the source for "psdit", or Adobe Transcript 3.0. Contributor: Trevor Darrell PSNUP.TAR-Z A program to allow n-up printing (2, 4, 8, or 16 "pages" per page) of any arbitrary PostScript file. Contributor: Ned Batchelder PSROFF.TAR-Z Converts "old" troff (for the C/A/T) to PostScript. Can also output device-independent troff intermediate files. NOTE: This is NOT the "psroff" program from Adobe. Version 2.0. Contributor: Chris Lewis PSTEXT.TAR-Z Yet another text-to-PostScript translator. Handles landscape/portrait, backspaces, 2-up, and other stuff. Contributor: Dan Judd RASTER-TO-POSTSCRIPT.TAR-Z A program to convert arbitrary 8-bits-per-pixel rasters into PostScript. Contributor: Marc Majka SUN-TO-POSTSCRIPT.TAR-Z A Sun rasterfile to PostScript image translator. Contributor: Glenn Boysko TEK2PS.TAR-Z A Tektronix 4014 to PostScript converter. Contributor: Michael S. Fischbein THACK.TAR-Z An "old troff" (for the C/A/T/ phototypesetter) to PostScript conversion filter. Runs under SunOS and System V with Apple LaserWriter series. Contributor; Phil Everson TPSCRIPT.TAR-Z A device-independent troff to PostScript filter package. Works with 4.3BSD, DWB 1.0 (NOT 2.0) and an Apple LaserWriter Plus. Contributor: Axel Mahler UP.TAR-Z A program to allow printing PostScript files n-up on a page. You need to have Perl Version 3.0 for this to work. Contributor: J. Greely