[Groff] Re: patch for configure.ac and aclocal.m4

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Werner,

> > > +/inch {72 mul} def
> > > +/Times-Roman findfont 10 scalefont setfont
> > > +4.5 inch 0.812500 1 add inch moveto ( testing ) show
> > > +showpage
> > > +EOF
> > 
> > If there's no particular reason why the test image has to be
> > generated from PostScript then pbmmake or pbmtext could be used
> > instead in the pipeline on the line below.  See `Image Generators'
> > in netpbm(1).
> 
> The less utility programs are used, the better.

In that case, is it worth junking the embedded PostScript entirely?  If
all that's required is a test image for pnmtops then how about

    echo P1 2 2 0 1 1 0

directly in the if-statement being piped into pnmtops?

Cheers,


Ralph.