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psutils in postscript locker upgraded to most recent release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Sat Jan 9 21:53:04 1999
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
Cc: postscript@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 21:51:33 EST
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
I've updated the distribution of psutils in the postscript
locker to the most recent release, psutils 1 patchlevel 17. This
introduces some new programs into the psutils release and brings the
distribution up to date ; all perl scripts are now perl 5, and all C
programs make more of an attempt to be ANSI C. The distribution is
available for Solaris, Irix, Linux, NetBSD, and Ultrix.
All parts of the psutils distribution are in the postscript
locker, "add postscript" to place them in your path. All of the scripts
and programs have documentation in the form of man pages. The psutils
distribution:
(PROGRAMS)
psbook rearranges pages into signatures
psselect selects pages and page ranges
pstops performs general page rearrangement and selection
psnup put multiple pages per physical sheet of paper
psresize alter document paper size
epsffit fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box
(SCRIPTS)
getafm (sh) outputs PostScript to retrieve AFM file from printer
showchar (sh) outputs PostScript to draw a character with metric info
fixdlsrps (perl) filter to fix DviLaser/PS output so that PSUtils works
fixfmps (perl) filter to fix framemaker documents so that psselect etc. work
fixmacps (perl) filter to fix Macintosh documents with saner version of md
fixpsditps (perl) filter to fix Transcript psdit documents to work with PSUtils
fixpspps (perl) filter to fix PSPrint PostScript so that psselect etc. work
fixscribeps (perl) filter to fix Scribe PostScript so that psselect etc. work
fixtpps (perl) filter to fix Troff Tpscript documents
fixwfwps (perl) filter to fix Word for Windows documents for PSUtils
fixwpps (perl) filter to fix WordPerfect documents for PSUtils
fixwwps (perl) filter to fix Windows Write documents for PSUtils
extractres (perl) filter to extract resources from PostScript files
includeres (perl) filter to include resources into PostScript files
One script included in the distribution, psmerge, has not been
installed, because the author declares it to be an enormous kludge, and
I haven't been able to make it work to my satisfaction. I hope to
install it in the locker later. Please report any problems to
postscript@mit.edu. Share and enjoy.
Garry
