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From: pacolley@violet.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Colley)
Subject: DVI driver for DeskJet500 WANTED
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.190511.15438@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1991 19:05:11 GMT
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I've got a DVI driver for my HP DeskJet 500, but it doesn't work.

Could somebody either:
   - Tell me what incredibly stupid thing I'm doing wrong,
OR
   - Send me a working driver?


This is for Xenix 2.3.2 on a 80386.

Thanks!

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For those who want to try the first option, here's the gruesome
details:

The driver "dvidj" was Emailed to me by a helpful person some time ago,
but I didn't get my printer until Thursday this week.  It looks like
the driver is from the "Beebe" set of drivers.

The symptom:

The letters are mangled.  After some fiddling and playing and
thinking...  Consider the letter "A".  As you look accross a row it
goes black, white, black,...  the problem is the sizes of the white
spaces are wrong, each larger by some semi-constant amount (maybe 1/8th
of an inch), so that the character gets sliced into pieces and
distribued over a horizontal area much larger than it should

For example, a "I" gets printed almost perfectly (except for the
spacing caused by the little ``hooks'' (kerns?) on the edges of the top
and bottom bar), but an "M" looks like it was chopped up with a food
processor.

Compliing with both CC and GCC give identical results, and getting
font files from a known good source doesn't help, so I think it's the
dvidj program.

I've looked through the code, but can't see anything wrong.

Thanks for any help,

- Paul Colley
  pacolley@violet.waterloo.edu or .ca     ...!watmath!violet!pacolley
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