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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: problems with dvips in the 68040 CUBE!!!
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Date: 18 Apr 91 12:06:39 GMT
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In article <170516@nttlab.ntt.JP>:
>Another dvips bug: the -t switch (setting mode, for different paper
>sizes) blows up, at least for "-t a4", printing oversized characters
>in pseudo-random ways.

It may not be a dvips bug but a PS interpreter bug. Our Dataproducts
1260 dislikes BoundingBoxes larger than the paper size here (A4). (Yes,
apparently the interpreter reads the structuring comments!) and
produces double height characters. Using -t a4 fixed it.