I have slowly evolved versions of Stephen Frede's "text2ps" since 1989 (!) to format text files for my HP postscript level 2 printers (and their predecessors, back to the Apple Laserwriter).
However, these days I write and print some text documents with non-ASCII characters (mostly super/sub-scripts and greek, sometimes other oddball stuff), and the exotic UTF-8 characters print as "??". It is time-consuming to manually process the documents through libreoffice and similar GUI tools. Libreoffice with unoconv might be an option, but I worry about the long term stability of libreoffice. I prefer a small and self-contained single-purpose tool suitable for embedding in shell script pipes. Can someone suggest a /stable/ replacement for text2ps which can accomodate a larger subset of UTF-8, and create usable postscript 2 output? Keith P.S. - if someone has current contact information for Australian comp-sec expert Stephen Frede, I would like to surprise him with an extremely belated "thank you". P.P.S. - I'll upgrade to postscript 3 printers when I find one built like a tank, using ultra-high-capacity (cheap/page) toner cartridges like my venerable HP4050 . -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
