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From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: TeX and 1270 dpi Linotronic output
Message-ID: <1990May26.040231.22931@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Sat, 26 May 90 04:02:31 GMT

We have a Linotronic typesetter at University of Toronto and I would
be interested in hearing about user experiences with TeX and high 
resolution output devices.

In particular jobs fail regularly with a VM Error (out of memory) and
I am interested in hearing of others with similar experience and of ANY
possible solutions to this. 

1270 dpi fonts, aside from eating disk space like chocolate chip cookies
are cumbersome to move around networks, and consume memory on the linotronic.
This causes most of the problems as far as I can determine. Some pages
when processed with a dvi2ps that uses the builtin fonts on the lino for
all but math STILL failed when there were a lot of different fonts on
a page (8 different families or sizes). This appeared to be very inefficient
re-encoding of the builtin fonts. 

Lets hear from anyone please...

tj