[TUHS] Troff to ps

[Will Senn]

On 7/26/20 10:31 AM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My questions:
>> 1. Is there a troff to postcript conversion utility present in a stock
>> 2.11 system (or even patch level 4xx system)?
> Troff from that era was designed to drive the C/A/T phototypesetter.
> There were tools that converted from C/A/T to postscript but they
> were mostly commercial IIRC.
>
>> 2. Is there a way to build postscript directly on the system?
> Likely not.
>
>> 3. Is there an alternative modern way to get to ps or pdf output from
>> the nroff/troff that 2.11 has?
> I would recommend tar-ing up the doc and macros, moving them to Linux
> or other modern system, and using groff -C to create postscript/pdf.
> That really will be the fastest way.
>
> Arnold

Arnold,

Thanks. This is next up on the to try list.

Will

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