From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 2 4:40:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 833E937B491 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 04:40:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA65109 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:40:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3A7AAAB6.459155EA@nisser.com> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 13:40:22 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: Nisser - Nr. 1 in Veiligheid X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troff to postscript at A4? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 . 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