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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

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