Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:33:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: groff and ghostscript Message-ID: <19981212103320.F457@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812112353.QAA19169@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from Chad R. Larson on Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 04:53:30PM -0700 References: <19981212094033.Y457@freebie.lemis.com> <199812112353.QAA19169@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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On Friday, 11 December 1998 at 16:53:30 -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > As I recall, 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. > > A further thought. The DeskJet 500 is a 300 dpi machine, the DeskJet > 520 is 600dpi, I believe. Might be related to the apparently tiny font? > But a2ps output looks perfectly normal. Gotta be a groff issue. Seems reasonable. But I've been using groff for ever, and I haven't had any problems. Pick up ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/sample.ps and print it out; tell me how it looks. > BTW, maybe I misunderstand the difference between Aladin and GNU > GhostScript. I picked 2.6.2 because it I understood it to be the > latest GNU (free) version. Not true? There's a difference in the licensing, but I've forgotten what it is. Something like you can't use it for commercial purposes. It's not serious for most people, and the Aladdin version is a lot better. 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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