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Re: [Groff] PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent'
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Miklos Somogyi |
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Re: [Groff] PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent' |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:12:39 +1100 |
On 11/03/2006, at 1:28 AM, Michail Vidiassov wrote:
Dear All,
let us run some survey.
Please, tell us, how do you use groff PS output.
Do you know how other people use it?
Is it really in use?
Do you use fonts supplied with groff or install your own font files?
Werner is now desiding what to consider the default font set for devps.
Sincerely, Michail
Very few printers understand PDF. In the vast majority cases they need
to be converted to PS.
This usually happens without users noticing it.
Well, one may convert groff PS to PDF and back to PS again for
printing, just what for?
Apart from doubling the work, you'll have big files and slow printing,
and the
conversion may add things like a yellow background that you haven't
asked for, scale the
page a bit here and there...
If you have a PS printer, the best thing is to send your PS file
directly to the printer, bypassing
the system (on my Mac I use `lpr -l` to do that, even if the job does
not show-up in the queue).
I suspect that your question was inspired by the `common knowledge'
that PostScript is slow.
Just one extreme case to put things into perspective: a PC user
complained about sloooow
printing at another forum. He sent me a PC generated PS file.
It did some very simple things, but needed 90s of printer cpu time.
It was some 12,000 lines long, full of absolutely unnecessary expensive
instructions.
I wrote a 30 line program to do the same job, and it needed 0.2s cpu
time.
If you fly from Moscow to St Petersburg via Johannesburg and Beijing,
it takes a long time.
But you can't say that that's because the plane is slow.
Be happy that groff generates good PS code, use it as it is, whenever
you can.
Miklos
- [Groff] Re: PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent', (continued)
- [Groff] Re: PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent', Werner LEMBERG, 2006/03/10
- RE: [Groff] PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent', Ted Harding, 2006/03/10
- Re: [Groff] PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent', Werner LEMBERG, 2006/03/10
- Re: [Groff] PS printing, Michail Vidiassov, 2006/03/11
- Re: [Groff] PS printing, M Bianchi, 2006/03/11
- Re: [Groff] PS printing, Michail Vidiassov, 2006/03/11
- Re: [Groff] PS printing, M Bianchi, 2006/03/11
- Re: [Groff] PS printing, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/03/11
- Re: [Groff] PS printing, M Bianchi, 2006/03/11
Re: [Groff] PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent', Clarke Echols, 2006/03/10
Re: [Groff] PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent',
Miklos Somogyi <=
Re: [Groff] PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent', Deri James, 2006/03/10
Re: [Groff] PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent', Greg 'groggy' Lehey, 2006/03/10
Re: [Groff] PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent', m hobgood, 2006/03/10