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Date:      Sat, 12 Dec 1998 09:40:33 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        chad@DCFinc.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: groff and ghostscript
Message-ID:  <19981212094033.Y457@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812110725.AAA15808@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from Chad R. Larson on Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 12:25:05AM -0700
References:  <199812110725.AAA15808@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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On Friday, 11 December 1998 at  0:25:05 -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote:
> I suppose this is a semi-newbie question.
>
> I've built and installed GhostScript (2.6.2) on a 2.2.8-STABLE
> system.  It's going against an HP DeskJet 520.  I'm using the djet500
> device type.
>
> This setup is printing the examples in the GhostScript build
> directory just fine (I really like the tiger).  But when I do
> something like "groff -man -l foobar.1", I get an otherwise nicely
> formatted man page that has a =tiny= font.  Like, maybe 4 point.
>
> Saves paper, but it's too hard on these old eyes.
>
> Where's the knob to frob for the PostScript fonts?

I haven't seen this before, but you'd save yourself a lot of variables
if you were to install the latest version of ghostscript (5.10) from
the Ports Collection.

Greg
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