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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: dwb and font DESC.out
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.193232.18095@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 11 Jan 91 19:32:32 GMT
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In article <9101110410.AA20690@remote.dccs.upenn.edu>, YATES@C.CHEM.UPENN.EDU ("YATES, JOHN H.") writes:
|> The very first thing I tried failed. Invoking troff gives:
|> 
|> troff: can't open tables for /usr/lib/font/devaps/DESC.out
|> 
|> So I looked in /usr/lib/font and found:
|> 
|> devX100/  devi10/   devpsc/
|> and yes DESC.out is in:
|> /usr/lib/font/devpsc/DESC.out
|> 
|> So, anyway, what gives? Should it be aps or psc or neither? Am I in for more
|> surprises with these two products?
|> 
Device independent troff defaults to composing for the APS typesetter.
Therefore just calling "troff" is going to make it look for the APS
width tables.  However since most of our customers  don't have an APS,
those width tables aren't installed by default.

Laser printer support gives you the PostScript width tables (devpsc).
But you have to invoke troff with appropriate flags to tell it to
compose for PostScript (laserwriter) instead of the APS.

Alternatively you can use another part of the laser printer support
package: psroff. This is a font-end script which calls troff with
the right flags for PostScript. Read the man page.
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