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From: john@chook.ua.oz (John Warburton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Kspool, psf and plain text printing problems
Keywords: kspool, psf, plain text, help
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Date: 27 Jun 90 07:32:42 GMT
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Reply-To: john@chook.ua.oz (John Warburton)
Organization: Comp Sci, Uni of Adelaide, Australia
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Hello,

  I have just installed Mt Xinu's product K-Spool on a sun 4 (SUNOS 4.0.3).
I have had no problems whatsoever with installation, or of printing ps, dvi,
or *roff files. My problem is with printing plain text files with psf.
  
  We are currently printing to our apple laserwriter via a serial line with
page width at 80 and page length at 66 (in printcap). configks gave me the 
default page length and width of 77 and 96.

  When I printed a plain text file with the default page settings, the top of
the page was in the correct position, but the spacing between lines was closer
than on the serial laserwriter and so more lines were printed to that page. 
Because of this, part of the last was not printed (ie the top half).

  I then changed the page length and width to 66 and 80, and printed a plain 
text file. The result of this was that the top of the page was about 5 lines
lower down than it should have been and so the top half (of what I presume 
was) of the last last line was only printed. In this case, the lines were also
closer together than our normal.

  From what I can gather this is due to the postscript command "moveto" being
given numbers that are not big enough. As we only have binaries to psf, there
is no way that I can find any more information. 

  Is there anyone out there that has had this problem, and can it be solved???
Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
   John

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John Warburton                          Phone   : +61 8 228 5583
Department of Computer Science          Telex   : UNIVAD AA89141
University of Adelaide                  Fax     : +61 8 223 1206
GPO Box 498 Adelaide SA 5001            ACSnet  : john@cs.ua.oz