Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 13:40:22 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troff to postscript at A4? Message-ID: <3A7AAAB6.459155EA@nisser.com>
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Tony Landells wrote: > > ... > The whole point of PostScript is that it shouldn't really care about > the printer details. > > Since you're not printing on this box, printcap is not involved. Sure, PS doesn't. Especially not when you pass the -g option to let it guess pagelength. Yet that only means the content will be stuck into a corner of the page. Troff OTOH is a typesetter. Even when called by groff <g>. Tx. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. Nisser home -- http://www.Nisser.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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