From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 11 15:54:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16122 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:54:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16112 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:54:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19169; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 16:53:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199812112353.QAA19169@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: groff and ghostscript In-Reply-To: <19981212094033.Y457@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 12, 98 09:40:33 am" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 16:53:30 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > Greg > -- 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. 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? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message