From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 11 15:34:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15172 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15160 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:34:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA13897; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:04:13 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA07270; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:04:09 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981212100408.B457@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:04:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Larry S. Marso" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: groff and ghostscript References: <199812110725.AAA15808@freeway.dcfinc.com> <19981212094033.Y457@freebie.lemis.com> <19981211182107.G23093@marso.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981211182107.G23093@marso.com>; from Larry S. Marso on Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:21:07PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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