Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:04:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Larry S. Marso" <larry@marso.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: groff and ghostscript Message-ID: <19981212100408.B457@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981211182107.G23093@marso.com>; from Larry S. Marso on Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:21:07PM -0500 References: <199812110725.AAA15808@freeway.dcfinc.com> <19981212094033.Y457@freebie.lemis.com> <19981211182107.G23093@marso.com>
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On Friday, 11 December 1998 at 18:21:07 -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 09:40:33AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> 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. > > Did you notice Greg, there's a newer ghostscript available; don't know if > it's a port yet. Oops, yes, version 5.50. In fact, I've been using it myself for quite a while. That's what comes of not checking the version numbers. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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