Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!houxf!stewart From: stewart@houxf.UUCP (Bill Stewart HO 4K-435 x0705) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: HP LaserJet and troff Message-ID: <851@houxf.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 17:05:02 EST Article-I.D.: houxf.851 Posted: Sun Feb 10 17:05:02 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 07:05:14 EST References: <1265@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 41 At least two companies make troff postprocessors for the Laser-Jet printer. (By the way, they get discussed a lot in fa.laser-lovers, which is also forwarded from an ARPAnet group). The one I know less about is Elan Computer Group - I don't have their address handy, but I think they're in Los Altos, Ca. A person to contact is Ken Greer at hplabs (he works there as a consultant). I saw a sample of their work at Usenix, and it's pretty good. Textware International, in Cambridge, Mass., produces a line of troff postprocessors producing output for the Laser Jet, the Xerox 2700, *700 ... 9700, and probably other things. The person there is Brent Byer. I don't have his login handy, but it's probably {harvard or wjh12}!textware!bb. His software produces very high quality output for the eqn equation program, boxed tables with boxes that really line up, and sometime soon should be handling the pic graphics stuff as well. Both sets of software currently use the "B" font cartridge, which has "Times" fonts in roman, bold, and italic 10-point, 8.5 point times, 14 point "Helvetica", as well as Courier 10-point, 8.5point, and landscape 10-point. The raster memory is only 53K at 300 dots/inch, which gives you about 6 square inches - it's really only useful for equations and small amounts of graphics; most of the text is handled by the builtin fonts. (Note that the Apple and Imagen printers based on the Canon 8/300 engine provide tons of memory, but also cost more.) Everyone is hoping that HP will come out with some downloadable RAM font cartridges for use with user-supplied fonts, but don't hold your breath. If you want proper addresses for Textware or Elan, send me mail. My usual address is {ihnp4, allegra, houxf}!ho95c!wcs. Bill Stewart -- Bill Stewart ho95c!wcs AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ HO 4K-435 x0705 (201-949-0705) allegra!ho95c!wcs ucbvax!ihnp4!ho95c!wcs decvax1harpo!ho95c!wcs