From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 11 16:03:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17517 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 16:03:52 -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 QAA17436 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 16:03:47 -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 KAA14041; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:33:30 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA20454; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:33:21 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981212103320.F457@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:33:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: groff and ghostscript References: <19981212094033.Y457@freebie.lemis.com> <199812112353.QAA19169@freeway.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812112353.QAA19169@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from Chad R. Larson on Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 04:53:30PM -0700 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 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