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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Problem printing GNU manuals.
Message-ID: <9772@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 9 Oct 89 02:22:12 GMT
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Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <2894NU013809@NDSUVM1> NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg Wettstein) writes:
>I spent the entire day yesterday on the problem and I have some additional
>information which may help in generating a problem fix.  The problem now
>appears to be totally related to an improper page length.  TeX seems to
>be functioning properly in all regards but seems to assume that the printable
>area is about 3 inches longer than it actually is.  This problem is occuring
>when I printer either the GNU EMACS or GNU MAKE manual.

If you are using the epson dvi driver and a non-epson printer, the problem
may be in the printer's handling of the vertical motion commands.  I've
seen something like this on a Gemini printer before, where the vertical
motions are about a third larger than epson's.

Les Mikesell