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Subject: Re: Trickey: "more about the blind tasting"
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 04:29:12 EDT
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From: Brian Reid <reid@Glacier>

Howard Trickey, a pleasant young friend of the TEX group, says
"I've been informed that no formatter was involved in producing the
samples we looked at."

Following his lead, I just sat down with Emacs and created an Impress file
(for Imagen printers), a PostScript file (for Adobe printers), and a
Press file (for Xerox printers). I then sent these files to their respective
printers.

I am pleased to report that the Imagen printer got a segmentation fault and
needed to be rebooted, the Xerox Dover just burped and didn't print
anything, and the Adobe printer printed more or less what I wanted it to,
though I counted the character widths wrong and the last few letters of
each line ran off the page.

I conclude from this that all printers work better when you use them with
formatters. I will be pleased to instruct anyone in the TEX group on the use
of my favorite formatter in case they have forgotten how to use theirs; My
favorite formatter (unlike theirs) is able to produce output files for all
of these printers, using comparable algorithms.

Howard, you're too nice a guy to be hanging out with these Imagen lovers.
Don't let them corrupt you. I've run out of 1984 Schedule CI forms.