• pl2ps question

    From ajuratli@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Randy Winfrey on Sun Apr 10 08:41:28 2016
    On Wednesday, 13 March 2002 08:18:10 UTC+4, Randy Winfrey wrote:
    I am doing some consulting for a local company which is using version
    4 of Interleaf on a VAXstation running VMS. (Yes, I tried to tell them
    to upgrade a long time ago.) They have used it for a long time and
    have written a number of programs specific to their business which
    generate ASCII markup input for Interleaf.

    We need to generate a Postscript output file, which we then want to
    convert to PDF file, maybe with Ghostscript. (This version of
    Interleaf does not have an option to generate Postscript directly from
    the desktop.)

    It seems like the pl2ps filter ought to do the trick: just generate
    the Printerleaf file and use pl2ps (Version 4.0.5) to generate the Postscript. I have tried

    pl2ps -usage

    and got a list of the options. I have tried the obvious

    pl2ps -i my_file.pl -o my_file.ps

    and the less obvious (from a logical name IWS4_??_ARGV, didn't write
    down the name)

    pl2ps -i my_file.pl -o my_file.ps -v -T pslw+ -r 1270 -RV

    In either case, the program prints the contents of a file,
    pspro.ps_4_0_5, to the screen, then prints an error message

    unable to figure which lfu to use

    No output file is produced.

    A search through this group and other places revealed that pl2ps has a
    well deserved reputation for user hostility. Does anyone know what the
    proper
    options/syntax would be?

    Thanks!

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