Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: dvi2ps Message-ID: <1436@uw-beaver> Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 16:53:23 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1436 Posted: Thu Jul 25 16:53:23 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jul-85 03:09:11 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 21 From: Robert Morris _______________ "By way of contrast to the public domain "dvi2ps" program, Textset's DVILASER/PS produces average printed pages at the rate of 20 seconds per page on an Apple LaserWriter." ____________________ 20 secondsPerPage 3 pagesPerMinute ne {(amazing!) print} {(hype!) print } ifelse In any case, people should not be proud of getting 3 pages per minute out of an 8 page per minute engine, especially for text.....(in fairness, the authors of dvi2ps have here observed that they have not tried to optimize). For TeX a nice measure might be the time to print the entire TeX manual as a single job. In all likelyhood, as per discussion here, to make this work with downloaded fonts will end up requiring characters to be loaded more than once when the printer runs out of VM.